Quotes About Opposites

a blazing fire in an ice storm.

All that's best of dark and bright.'

Thus, to see all memory as present experience is to collapse the boundaries of this present moment, to free it of illusory limits, to deliver it from the opposites of past vs. future. It becomes obvious that there is nothing behind you in time nor before you in time. You thus have nowhere to stand but in the timeless present, and thus nowhere to stand but in eternity.

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.

There are only two classes of people. "The Clear", powered by their confusion and "The Confused", powered by their clarity

Darkness can inspire light, and light can inspire darkness, its just a difference of distant of these two contrasting forces.

Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.

He was an old sock and she was a glass slipper

I never heardSo musical a discord, such sweet thunder.

How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?

It is difficult to imagine a stream that flows two directions at the same time, but this is just what the nervous system does. The failure to sufficiently appreciate this unity of seeming opposites leads us into separating too absolutely afferent from efferent, sensation from behavior, attitude from activity. And this leads us in turn into forgetting how powerfully touch, sensation, continually alters internal conditions and overt behavior.

Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one.

Black and white is mix of toughest simplicity and easiest complexity.

Black and white is salt and pepper of colors, for life tastes bland without them.

Black and white is heaviest of vibrant and at the same time lightest of achromatic.

Black and white is refuge of colors from their own nullity.

We live a life of opposites. We want things we can't have and have things we don't want.

Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.

Ya sé que eres traidora y que me tienes buena voluntad. Lo bueno crece junto con lo malo.

Tutti i pregiudizi sono determinati da altri pregiudizi, e i più frequenti sono quelli che nascono dai loro opposti.

Yeah, baby! And you are the magnet and I'm the steel! Bring to me your leather, take from me my lace!

What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing?

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred; since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other; only the indolence of human nature finds it so hard to pierce through to the other side.