Quotes About Dichotomy

Yes, sir!' from one half. 'No, sir!' from the other. 'Of

Bonnie Jean (who thinks all philosophers are idiots) has this quarrel with Wittgenstein, who in several places says that reddish green is inconceivable. Yet every summer, when our peppers are drying from green to red, one can see an intermediate stage that is precisely reddish green.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

The more she turned right the more I turned wrong.

Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.

Because a woman can live in one of two houses--- fear or love. It is impossible to live in both at the same time.

Comienza con la admiración ante una persona, lo sigue el entusiasmo y culmina con la pasión que nos lleva a la dicha o al desastre. El amor es una prueba que a todos, a los felices y a los desgraciados, nos enoblece.

How nearly can what we most despise and hate, approach in outward manner to that which we most venerate!

To overlook extra possibilities is the fallacy of false dichotomy.

TRUTH comes easier when you're nine years old, too. Everything's a lot less complicated. This or that. Us or them. Truth or lie.

You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

To use our individual good or bad luck as a litmus test to determine whether or not God exists constructs an illogical dichotomy that reduces our capacity for true compassion. It implies a pious quid pro quo that defies history, reality, ethics, and reason. It fails to acknowledge that the other half of rising—the very half that makes rising necessary—is having first been nailed to the cross.

To use our individual good or bad luck as a litmus test to determine whether or not God exists constructs an illogical dichotomy that reduces our capacity for true compassion.

If the sky was so perfect, why was the earth all wrong

People are often surprised that I am so upbeat. I'm always hearing, 'You're so light and funny, and your books are so dark and twisted.' There's a dichotomy. I like books that are dark and creepy. I don't control it - it's just what I gravitate toward.

I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.

es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Ich kann in gut und böse die Welt nicht teilen; nicht in zwei Zweige der Vernunft, nicht in gesund und krank. Wenn ich die Welt teilen wollte, müsst ich die Axt an mich selber legen, mein Inneres spalten, dem angeekelten Publikum die beiden Hälften hinhalten, dass es Grund hat die Nase zu rümpfen: Wo bleibt die Reinlichkeit. Ja, unrein ist was ich vorzuweisen habe. Nicht zum Reinbeißen und Runterschlucken. Zum Weglaufen, Günderrode.

The second party was directly opposed to the first; one extreme, as always happens, was met by representatives of the other.

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

The limits of binary thinking are spooky enough

A false dichotomy is considered a philosophical error, also called the "fallacy of the excluded middle," and falls in the category of the "false dilemma.

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.