Quotes About Opposites

Mary and I look eerily similar but other than that, the differences are pretty much night and day.

If you want to love, express hate. If you want to hate, express love.

The two most powerful impulses in my life have been the urge to create and the urge to be – a set of opposites – and they have always clunked into each other. How very like them to do so right now.

The human mind defines things in relation to one another—without light the notion of darkness would be unintelligible

Good God, you don't think I'm trying to pair you off with Daphne, do you?" Simon said nothing. "You would never suit. You're a bit too brooding for her tastes.

A clear Brunian 'coincidence of contraries' has surfaced again, for to be happy when miserable translates Bruno's paradoxical motto which preceded his play Candelaio: 'In tristitia hilaris: in hilaritate tristis'—in sad- ness, happiness and in happiness, sadness.

You're a peach full of poison, you know that?" Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone.

Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

The Law Polarity decrease that everything has an opposite it's the flip side of the coin, you're right my left, the front the back, consider this next time you disagree with someone because their right from their point of view.

Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each gives the other one meaning.

I no longer felt alone and it gave me, not strength, but a sweet sensation of happiness, though I knew sadness was lurking not far off, because all being arises from nonbeing, and everything that exists derives from its opposite.

First there was light, and then there was no-light. First there was heat, and then there was no-heat. And - First there was love, and then there was no-love. But in its place did not come the absence of love, the emptiness that the going of light and heat had left. Another moved in to take its place. In its place came hate.

That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.

I do want your happiness. But the absence of fighting or hatred or desire also means the opposites do not exist either. No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

He is dirt under fingernails and the stick of sap on skin... I am saintly, poetic; I am demise, otherworld.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

The Judeo-Christian heritage has left us with the view of a universe composed of warring opposites, which are valued as either good or evil. They cannot coexist.

Aber jeder Schatten ist im letzen doch auch Kind des Lichts, und nur wer Helles und Dunkles, Krieg und Frieden, Aufstieg und Niedergang erfahren, nur der hat wahrhaft gelebt.

After all, shadows themselves are born of light.

and so the lion fell in love with the lamb.

The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.

Hmmmm Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.