Quotes About Dichotomy

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Some will tell you that there are multiple worldviews. The Bible says we have only 2: the Truth and the Lie.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

I think the truth is black-and-white.

Bacon's dichotomy is still germane today: a former President of the Royal Society, George Porter, encapsulated it by the maxim 'there are two kinds of science, applied and not yet applied'.

Truth on this side of the Pyrenees, error on the other.

What falls but never breaks; what breaks but never falls?

People don't change. There are two kinds of people in the world: winners and losers. Black and white. I don't know where gray fits in, or if you can even live in that shade.

I don't believe faith and reason are natural enemies. I believe our human desire for certainty and our often-desperate need to "be right" have led to this false dichotomy. I don't trust a theologian who dismisses the beauty of science or a scientist who doesn't believe in the power of mystery.

Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion.

The complete reverse was so often the case that he had come to think of it as a kind of natural law.

The man was a walking dichotomy. Those powerful neck-snapping, knife-throwing hands that did murder without pause were equally capable of tenderness and delicacy.

Toutes les civilisation sont déchues, mais les mode diffèrent : la déchéance orientale est passive; la déchéance occidentale, active. La faute de l'Orient déchu, c'est qu'il ne pense plus; celle de l'Occident déchu, qu'il pense trop, et mal. L'Orient dort sur des vérités; l'Occident vit dans des erreurs.

Warring for peace is like screwing for virginity!!

I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white. Remember this.

I am a girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white.

I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner.

You are for salvation; I am for the Pit.

Opposites contend

I have this theory that almost everything in the world can be divided into two groups.

In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it split apart, so that you had serious fiction and genre fiction.

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

All I can say is if one was tea, the other coffee. If one was smoke, the other cigar. There is absolutely nothing in common between them except they both fought to win.