Quotes About Opposites

You'd think that sweet would be a land far, far away from irritating, but as it turns out they're right next door and always having border disputes.

The object of philosophy, therefore, is to perceive unity in diversity, mind in matter, and matter in mind; to find the synthesis in which opposites and contradictions meet and merge; to rise to that highest knowledge of universal unity which is the intellectual equivalent of the love of God.

I find that a high in one area of my life often produces a low in another

Without Contraries is no Progression.

Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white.

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

Defeats, humiliations- craven avoidance- burn into memory so much more deeply than their opposites.

es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?

Trabajar con las dos manos es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?

If humans are ever to understand one another, they will have to come to terms with the concept, and the reality, of relativity. In essence, that's what the Earthgame is about. They will have to see how things look compared to other things. Once you understand that nothing exists without its opposite, you understand nothing is good and nothing is evil, that opposites actually hold each other up.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Dutchy and I are about as opposite as two people can be. I am practical and circumspect; he is impulsive and direct. I'm accustomed to getting up before the sun rises; he pulls me back to bed.

We were opposites in every way until we grew up, left home, and discovered we were more alike than we'd thought. Sisters only get to be opposites within the family; separated by the world, they become practically identical.

Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.

Through centuries of centuries, fire and water face each other; the fire, upright, buoyant and leaping; the water flat, creeping, gliding, widening its lines and its surface. When they touch, is it the water which hisses and roars, or is it the fire?

Kærligheden er så logisk: Alle modsætninger bliver forudsætninger og sætningerne kommer forud for logikken: Jeg elsker dig, fordi det er sådan.

Loss and gain are brothers twain.

Statism and the advocacy of reason are philosophical opposites. They cannot coexist—neither in a philosophic system nor in a nation.

Las grandes pasiones parten de la antítesis.

I began to grasp the meaning of creation. I saw that death and life were not so much enemies as friendly comrades, not opposites that negate each other, but rather as variations of nature, each flowing out of the other. I felt myself detached from the world. Death no longer seemed terrible to me; indeed, it appeared less so than life. And the more I became submerged in myself, the more everything about me became alive and expressive and touched my soul.

Self-love is always self-love, whether it parades as pride and importance or masquerades as self-pity, worthlessness, and low self-esteem. They are not opposites, but two sides of the same coin. A penny is still a penny no matter which side is up. I is still the most important word.

A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.