Quotes About Opposites

Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.

The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less.

I call to the mysterious one who yet Shall walk the wet sand by the water's edge, And look most like me, being indeed my double, And prove of all imaginable things The most unlike, being my anti-self, And, standing by these characters, disclose All that I seek; and whisper it as though He were afraid the birds, who cry aloud Their momentary cries before it is dawn, Would carry it away to blasphemous men.

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

Most fairy tales are warnings against human pride and cruelty. Purity always has its opposite…if humans had no impurities, they could never be considered pure. It's like you and me.

According to Chinese philosophy, the world is sustained by the interplay of opposing but complementary forces called yin and yang.

Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.

In becoming more fully your true self, you have to understand and embrace the less attractive qualities in yourself. The essential nature of the universe is the coexistence of opposite values. You cannot be brave if you do not have a coward inside you. You cannot be generous if you do not have a tight-fisted person inside you. You cannot be virtuous unless you also contain the capacity for evil.

Light and dark appear as opposites, and we've all learned to think of them as warring enemies. Duality is based on separation, yet the soul exists in harmony with everything, even darkness. Your shadow self knows this. As it holds negative energy for you, it tries to attract your attention, not to make you afraid or enraged or vindictive, but so that you can convert those feelings into understanding. Understanding is the light.

Devil and God are two sides of the same face.

Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.

Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dust.

In the imaginative universe, the opposites unite, creating a magical third, which transcends ordinary consciousness. Fundamentally, Jung's commitment to the processes of transformation and the creation of a new psychic center, which he termed the self, place him in the imaginative world of the alchemist.

Trump did, in short, exactly what Mueller said he did. The two men—president and prosecutor—were like photo negatives of each other. Trump could not tell the truth, and Mueller could not tell a lie.

Dexter went rigid. There was a code to Mr. Q.'s utterances: repetition invoked a law of opposites. "Many plans," uttered twice, meant: not this plan. "Many plans," Mr. Q. said again, drawing out the words as he gazed tenderly into Dexter's eyes. No plans

Could' and 'is' are so far apart as to be opposites." "No," she says. " 'Is' and 'isn't' are opposites.

How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.

As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.

Y la de Linton es tan distinta como un rayo de luna de un relampago o como el hielo del fuego

Tú no perderás tu sangre fría, porque por tus venas no corre más que agua helada, pero mi sangre está hirviendo y tu frialdad me excita hasta lo inconcebible.

o oposto do amor não é o ódio, é a indiferença. (p. 306) (GIFFIN, 2004.)

It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.

True instruction is this:--to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole.