Quotes About Dichotomy

When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

But of all the deadly theories by means of which you are now being destroyed, I would like to warn you about one of the deadliest and most crucial: the alleged dichotomy of science and ethics. It is the doctrine that man's science and ethics - or his knowledge and values, or his body and soul - are two separate, antagonistic aspects of his existence, and that man is caught between them, as a precarious, permanent traitor to their conflicting demands.

Every education brings a point of reckoning, and this was his: seeing the world divided in two camps, the investigators and the sweeteners

Since 1789 nearly 2000 men and women had served in the U.S. Senate. Those folks could be divided into two broad classes—workhorses and show horses. One got things done, the other took the credit or assigned blame. Of late, that dichotomy had been brought into sharp focus, as the Senate seemed overrun by show horses.

W]hen we come up with any concept at all, we simultaneously create one or more opposite concepts.

I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy.

this. It seems to be a reflection, in part, of the order/chaos dichotomy characterizing all of experience, with Paradise serving as habitable order and the serpent playing the role of chaos. The serpent in Eden therefore means

Whenever we mentally compartmentalize our work away from our more creative or more spiritual being, we construct a false dichotomy. This schism has to collapse on the level of universal interdependence. If your week and life are segregated this way, you're going to cause suffering—at the very least for yourself. You'll guiltily and resentfully acquiesce to your place in the world.

Juxtaposition, you can't handle the juxtaposition!

Antes de casarse, Emma se había creído enamorada; pero como la felicidad que hubiera debido resultar de aquel amor no había llegado, pensó que necesariamente debía de haberse equivocado. Y trataba de averiguar qué significaban exactamente en la vida las palabras 'dicha', 'pasión' y 'embriaguez', que tan hermosas le habían parecido en los libros

La dicotomía entre contemplar la verdad en soledad y apartamiento y quedar atrapado en las relaciones y relatividades de los asuntos humanos se convirtió en algo indiscutible para la tradición del pensamiento político.

Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that.

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

A hair divides what is false and true.

There is no room in this philosophy for a middle ground, or a series of gradations, between the passive and aggressive status. Many

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

What a dichotomy. What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate.

We should therefore reject the entire dichotomy between central planning, on the one hand, and market "rationality" on the other.

A los cincuenta años de edad, en plena dicha, Óscar Echeverri murió en Risaralda: de muerte natural, como se muere en Colombia: asesinado.

prefiero morir en sus manos en una agonía lenta, a saber que nunca te tendré a mi lado, porque hasta que eso suceda, viviré dichosa contigo y no destrozada como lo estoy. Déjame elegir a mí mi propio destino.

But scissors are really intended for one job alone - snipping things in two. Dividing by force. Everything on one side or the other, and nothing in between.

I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong.