Quotes About Opposites

That's like the dog calling the cat's arse hairy!

everybody has a light and a dark side, and neither can exist without the other.

Whether we like it or not, one of our tasks on this earth is to work with the opposites through different levels of consciousness until body, soul and spirit resonate together. Initiation rites, experienced at the appropriate times in our lives, burn off what is no longer relevant, opening our eyes to new possibilities of our own uniqueness. They tear off the protective veils of illusion until at last we are strong enough to stand in our own naked truth.

But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites.

Dreams go by opposites I was once told.

Further, the orator should be able to prove opposites, as in logical arguments;

A straight nose is the most beautiful, but one that deviates from being straight and tends toward being hooked or snub can nevertheless still be beautiful to look at. Yet if it is tightened still more toward the extreme, [25] the part will first be thrown out of due proportion, and in the end it will cease to look like a nose at all, because it has too much of one and too little of the other of these opposites.

The smallest number, strictly speaking, is two.

It is plain then that they all in one way or another identify the contraries with the principles. And with good reason. For first principles must not be derived from one another nor from anything else, while everything has to be derived from them. But these conditions are fulfilled by the primary contraries, which are not derived from anything else because they are primary, nor from each other because they are contraries.

The dream has a very striking way of dealing with the category of opposites and contradictions . This is simply disregarded. To the dream 'No' does not seem to exist. In particular, it prefers to draw opposites together into a unity or to represent them as one. Indeed, it also takes the liberty of representing some random element by its wished-for opposite, so that at first one cannot tell which of the possible poles is meant positively or negatively in the dream-thoughts.

The dream has a very striking way of dealing with the category of opposites and contradictions. This is simply disregarded. To the dream 'No' does not seem to exist. In particular, it prefers to draw opposites together into a unity or to represent them as one.

We are so made, that we can only derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and only very little from a state of things.

Life really is a series of contrasts.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

What are dualities? They are what creates the worldly life [sansaar]. And if one attains Liberation [moksha], he will be beyond dualities!

However smart and determined you are, your life is always going to consist of light and darkness, joy and sadness, good or bad, up and down, yang and yin.

The Light yearns for the peaceful balance of the Darkness as much as Darkness seeks the Glory of the Light.

Darkness and light. Black and white. But which is death, and which is life?

Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very few have minds sufficiently capacious and impartial to make the adjustment with an approach to correctness, and it has to be made by the rough process of a struggle between combatants fighting under hostile banners.

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.

A marriage made in heaven—or in my case, hell.

Where there is neither light nor darkness, there God can cast His reflections. That seems to you impossible, because you are neither light nor dark; If you were either you would know your opposite -- and the neuter state where the two join hands. But that is too deep for you and too deep for the world of twilight people.

Hatred is the polar opposite (the complete opposite) of love just like sadness is the polar opposite of happiness, as well forgiveness is the polar opposite of unforgivingness. Besides that, comparing love to hatred is like comparing light to darkness, just like comparing happiness to sadness is like comparing heaven to hell. Thus, choose love over hatred, choose forgiveness over unforgivingness and choose happiness over sadness (come what may). ~Emeasoba George