Quotes About Polarity

God is, or he is not. Which way should we incline? Reason cannot answer.

For the human mind in its polarity of the male and female modes of experience, in its passages from infancy to adulthood and old age, in its toughness and tenderness, and in its continuing dialogue with the world, is the ultimate mythogenetic zone -the creator and destroyer, the slave and yet the master, of all the gods.

When something is not good, it's bad. Period.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.

that young man, like the son of a neck and a nun

Is enlightenment gradual or is it sudden? Whole schools of Buddhism have grown up around this issue. But it has always seemed to me that liberation is both sudden and gradual, that there is no polarity between the two.

A magnetized piece of steel will lift about twelve times its own weight, and if you demagnetize this same piece of steel, it will not even lift a feather.

1. the law of perpetual transmutation 2. the law of relativity 3. the law of vibration 4. the law of polarity 5. the law of rhythm 6. the law of cause and effect 7. the law of gender

Polarity damages people. The current atmosphere is saturated with disdain for one another. It's time for a new approach that celebrates our common humanity.

How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?

Whatever people say, there is right, there is wrong. There is nothing in between.' - Hercule Poirot (Murder on the Orient Express)

I work from opposites to opposites, in a way. It's finding one thing and then doing the other from film to film. So maybe after 'I Saw the Devil,' I might do something like 'I Saw the Angel' or perhaps something warm and happy.

Each one of us needs to discover the proper balance between the masculine and feminine energies, between the active and the receptive. (104)

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

The only way to look at men is like they're electrons. They have all these charges sticking out, and they're always looking for a hole where they can put those charges.

Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.

The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil.

If we identify with a polarity we create the other. A belief in the 'Light' means that you must believe in the 'Dark' or you would not have to call it 'Light'. It would just be, no labels necessary.

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God.

As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.