Quotes About Opposites

I believe in the equal and opposite: If I exist, there is an equal and opposite version of me, and so however long I have to wait, and wherever he happens to be, we'll find it. Sometimes it's like, 'Jesus, where he at?'

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.

I live in the extremes.

I listen to anything country and anything classical. Two great extremes.

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

Catholicism consistently celebrates the coming together of contraries, not in the manner of a bland compromise, but rather in such a way that the full energy of the opposing elements remains in place.

We realize that anything can be everything and each is also its opposite-then the image of zero's perfect ring shines before us.

This is what I think, but I don't say the words because the counterpoint of yes and no, love and hate, fear and longing, the need to tear down and the need to build up are synonymous and one.

She's too much like him in temperament. Married couples should complement each other, and not merely double their losses. There's much to be said for the square peg in the round hole, as the Cubist told the Vorticist.

One burns the dead while the other burns the living.

In an objective approach, force and value are opposites. The goal of a proper society, accordingly, is not to compel truth or virtue (which would be a contradiction in terms), but to make them possible—by ensuring that men are left free.

If your hero is a firefighter, your heroine better be an arsonist.

The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites.

There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.

Extremes,' said the Controller, 'meet. For the good reason that they were made to meet.

The Great Work is the uniting of opposites. It may mean the uniting of the soul with God, of the microcosm with the macrocosm, of the female with the male, of the ego with the non-ego—or what not.

40. My adepts stand upright; their head above the heavens, their feet below the hells. 41. But since one is naturally attracted to the Angel, another to the Demon, let the first strengthen the lower link, the last attach more firmly to the higher.

Duality begat the Conjunction.

Às vezes, acho que a vida não passa de uma balança de pratos, um sistema de pesos e contrapesos: sempre que me acontece alguma coisa boa, algo horrível há de seguir-se para equilibrar os pratos e impedir-me de ser completa e absolutamente feliz.

Day Play We play all day. Night Fight We fight all night.