Quotes About Opposites

CreaÈ›ia È™i distrugerea sunt direcÈ›ii diferite ale aceleiaÈ™i substanÈ›e ce se afirm? destr?mându-se.

When there's a plus, there's always a minus. If there's a powerful light, the darkness that is its opposite will be just as strong.

Polarities to manage are sets of opposites that can't function well independently. Because the two sides of a polarity are interdependent, you cannot choose one as a "solution" and neglect the other. The objective of the Polarity Management perspective is to get the best of both opposites while avoiding the limits of each.

One time you told me that the opposite of love isn't hate. And I didn't understand that, but I think I do know. Because if you hate someone, you most still care, right? You have to care a little bit; otherwise you would just ignore them and forget they even live. Or lived.

Opposites attract because they are alike. They are alike in that they are opposites.

Cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

This is the inevitable fate of the sentimentalist. All his opinions change into their opposites at the first brush of reality.

After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself.

A word contains its opposite in itself. Take 'good,' for instance. If you have a word like 'good,' what need is there for a word like 'bad'? 'Ungood' will do just as well—better, because it's an exact opposite, which the other is not.

You can't have bad without good. You can't have right without wrong. You can't have fantastic without mundane. You need to experience all that to really earn the title of the film, 'Fantastic Four.'

The full moon is saying 'O!' But the sun is silent

Their hatred is so passionate that I can't help but wonder if they're attracted to each other.

Their hatred is so passionate that I can't help but wonder if they're attracted to each other." S

Despite their difference, because of their differences, they were a perfect mismatched set. Two sides of the same tarnished penny.

My playing fields were comprised of a black and white universe – cold/hot, light/dark, heaven/hell, right/wrong – this, my guide, my birthright. Something was buried in the back of my soul – the signs were all there but no one knew, no one could tell so when I eventually went over the edge, it was meant to be a lesson learned.

he got up and moved in clouds and darkness out at one door as she brought song and sunshine in at the other.

the dark, the light. What's the difference

When I spoke of beauty, I was thinking of Rilke's notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin's idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.

One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. Love is identified with a resignation of power and power with a denial of love. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

Life is made up of opposing pairs -- life and death, love and hatred, happiness and misery, light and darkness, and on and on into infinity. Finding balance and contentment is like trying to walk a tightrope between all those opposites without falling off on one side or the other and believing that life must be all light or all darkness, when neither one is truth in itself. Imogene

You may have noticed how extremes call to each other, the spiritual to the animal, the caveman to the angel. You never saw a worse case than this.

No rose without a thorn. But many a thorn without a rose.

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.