Quotes About Duality

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

You say halfer as if it's a terrible thing, he said. But everyone I've ever known has been a halfer; if old enough t-to be called an adult, then ch-childish in their prejudices. All of us in the world really, I take to be h-halfers- half human, half divine, halfers of the best sort. I'd think the s-same must be true for the people of Wonderland, that there's...there is no such thing as s-someone who is not a halfer, or even a quarter-er, if you'll allow me the inelegant term.

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power, Tuek said. You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.

Paradox is a pointer telling you to look beyond it. If paradoxes bother you, that betrays your deep desire for absolutes. The relativist treats a paradox merely as interesting, perhaps amusing or even, dreadful thought, educational.

You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.

One cannot have a single thing without its opposite.

Isn't it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?" Jessica

They tend to forget that nothing in a polarized universe can exist without its opposite being present. —

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Moneo's eyes went wide with a sudden questioning awareness. He had seen the action of many polarities—the thing made known by its opposite.

As with all things sacred, it gives with one hand and takes with the other.

Law—our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law.

Hatred was as dangerous an emotion as love. The capacity for hatred was the capacity for its opposite.

non c'è nessuna cosa che si possa ottenere senza il suo opposto.

To be guilty is to be innocent. Thus, to be innocent is to be guilty.

There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed.

Radikali uvijek sve promatraju previše pojednostavljeno - crno i bijelo, dobro i zlo, oni i mi. Razmišljaju?i tako, oni otvaraju vrata kaosu. Vještina vladanja, kako ti to zoveš, jest upravljanje kaosom.

The universe God called into being has in it these two great divisions—the world of spirits and the world of matter.

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

I'm doing badly, I'm doing well; whichever you prefer.

By your side I'm most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.

Devilish in my innocence.

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

I am not at peace with myself; I am not always "something," and if for once I am "something," I pay for it by "being nothing" for months on end.