Quotes About Opposites

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.

Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.

The highest peace is the peace between opposites.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.

Tantra has to do with the reconciliation of opposites. All the yogas recommend that you avoid certain experiences. In tantra there is no avoidance.

We need dualities or opposites to appreciate, understandand recognize value and distinction in our lives. If we did not have bitter, we could not appreciate sweet....

Light has no value if there is no darkness.

Yin and yang are the left and right hands of the Infinite — creator, destroyer, and reproducer of everything that exists.

Whatever is not stone is light

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.

Always, there are some goodness in bad and something bad in goodness. It is the balance of life.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

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

My mother bore me in the southern wild,And I am black, but O! my soul is white;White as an angel is the English child,But I am black as if bereav'd of light.

Some burn damp faggots, others may consumeThe entire combustible world in one small room.

Life, she thought. Always a clash of opposites. Was there ever any real end to that great conflict?

A good argument must obey the rules of logic; express true premises; and have premises more plausible than their opposites.

know that without night there is no day; without lies, no truth;without despair,no hope. Beware above all of hate, but call to its opposite too. For all things have an opposite and, if you choose it, with will and care, you may turn one thing into its reflection.

The power of monsters is their ability to fuse opposites, to merge contraries, to subvert rules, to overthrow cognitive barriers, moral distinction, and ontological categories. Monsters overcome the barrier of time itself. Uniting past and present, demonic and divine, guilt and conscience, predator and prey, parent and child, self and alien, our monsters are our innermost selves.

As Chuang Tzu says: Too much pleasure? Yang has too much influence. Too much suffering? Yin has too much influence.28