Quotes About Duality

The big trunk of the umbrella pine looms outside the window, living its two lives—the upper world of needles and stems, the lower world of roots and soil.

Supreme Good and Evil (De finibus)

God, or nature, has no use for such categories as good and bad.

Bei den Frauen gibt es nur zwei Möglichkeiten. Entweder sie sind Engel. Oder sie leben noch.

There are two worlds. The world you understand and the world you don't. These worlds exist side by side, sometimes only centimeters apart, and the great majority of people spend their entire lives in one without being aware of the other. It's like living in one side of a mirror: you think there is nothing on the other side until one day a switch is thrown and suddenly the mirror is transparent. You see the other side.

Hawthorne certainly had a magnetic personality. Although, of course, magnets can repel as well as attract.

Somehow, she was always there when you needed her. The trouble was, she was also there when you didn't.

It was very hard to tell when he was acting and when he wasn't – sometimes with unfortunate consequences

Man was a complicated animal capable of extraordinary good and great evil – but he was definitely on his own.

A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

He who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it's a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can't separate persona from psyche; you just can't do it.

'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.

I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath. I'd like to play a psycho. With a heart, you know. A caring lunatic.

I feel like I've got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

There are no black and white, good or bad characters in 'Game Of Thrones,' but Joffrey was an exception. Just pure evil.

I'm an attorney when I'm not writing comics, and have been for years. That's a side of my life I don't always associate with pure creativity, but it's all worked out nicely.

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

I don't believe that pure evil exists, personally.

I went looking for embodiments of pure evil, but found ordinary people.

Most of us don't confront pure anything. What our life does involve is a whole lot of 60/40 and 70/30.

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's purely good or purely evil myself. I think most of us live with some varying degrees between the two.