Quotes About Duality

In a way, I was almost happy to see her. The worst part of me, out in the flesh. Blinking back at me in the dim light, daring me to call her a name other than my own.

Either you're standing under your haloes, eyes up to heaven, or you're munching apples in their faces and flashing your bush. I'm not even sure they know which one they prefer. The best you can do is choose when you change your costume

I guess people can be wrong and right at the same time.

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral;

Everyone was like the faces on a playing card, upside down either way.

It's the hysterical individual who allows his life to be polarized by simple extreme antitheses like strength—weakness, potency—impotence, health—sickness.

How lovely she could be! her face was gay and round, pink, the blue of her eyes was clear. Very different from the terrifying menstrual ice of her rages, the look of the murderess.

It is so easy for outsiders to say that there are two sides to the question. What a terrible expression! I am beginning to detest

Being absolutely right and being spectacularly wrong feel exactly the same.

That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.

Good and evil come Unannounced, to Mankind:

Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust, Die eine will sich von der andern trennen;

Faust: Nun gut wer bist du denn? Mephistopheles: Ein Theil von jener Kraft, Die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft.

Each person, the most worthy as well as the most despicable, carries around a secret which would make her hateful to everyone else if it became known.

Nas?l oluyor da insan? mesut eden bir ?ey ayn? zamanda felaketinin de kayna?? oluyor?

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Carrying such a tension of the opposites is like a Crucifixion. We must be as one suspended between the opposites, a painful state to bear. But in such a state of suspension the grace of God is able to operate within us. The problem of our duality can never be resolved on the level of the ego; it permits no rational solution. But where there is consciousness of a problem, the Self, the Imago Dei within us can operate and bring about an irrational synthesis of the personality.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

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There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

Saint abroad, and a devil at home.

In our forests part divine and makes her heart palpitate wild and tame are one. What a delicious Sound!

Monsters in movies are us, always us, one way or the other. They're us with hats on. The zombies in George Romero's movies are us. They're hungry. Monsters are us, the dangerous parts of us. The part that wants to destroy. The part of us with the reptile brain. The part of us that's vicious and cruel. We express these in our stories as these monsters out there.

I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.