Quotes About Dualism

I definitely feel Russian. I feel Russian, but at the same time when I'm in the States I feel at home, too.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy, the one facing what we do to the enemy.

I have an American passport, but I don't always remember I'm an American citizen.

Augustine's dualism saw the male as spirit and the female as flesh, which made male supremacy the foundation stone of existence. Female flesh was properly held in contempt.

Manichean dualism is the single worst idea people ever came up with — this notion that you can divide humankind into the children of light and the children of darkness.

Well I have to say I personally have never drawn such a sharp line between 'good' and 'bad' as you. For me: that line is often false. The two are never disconnected. One can't exist without the other. As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how. But you-wrapped up in judgment, always regretting the past, cursing yourself, blaming yourself, asking 'what if', 'what if'. 'Life is cruel.' 'I wish I had died instead of.

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.

It is intentionality that tears the seamless fabric of the causally closed material world.

I'm American by birth, but I consider myself Canadian.

At the center of Zoroastrian theology was a unique monotheistic system based on the sole god, Ahura Mazda ("the Wise Lord"). Like most ancients, Zarathustra could not easily conceive of his god as being the source of both good and evil. He therefore developed an ethical dualism in which two opposing spirits, Spenta Mainyu ("the beneficent spirit") and Angra Mainyu ("the hostile spirit"), were responsible for good and evil, respectively.

Manichaeism, the doctrine founded by the Prophet Mani, was a Gnostic religious movement heavily influenced by Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Judaism which preached a complex, radical dualism between the forces of darkness/evil and the forces of light/good.

Like most scientists, I am not a dualist, but I am nevertheless easily capable of enjoying Vice Versa and Laughing Gas.

we find a combination of three themes that would recur in the ideology of all successful empires: a dualistic worldview that pits the good of empire against evildoers who oppose it; a doctrine of election that sees the ruler as a divine agent; and a mission to save the world.128

It is ironic that while environmental activists are busy reifying a notion of nature based on purity, with all its problematic implications, the enterprise of bioengineering is making it crystal clear that the nature-culture dualism is a construction, a point that feminists and other social critics have been trying to get across for some time.

Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.

You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.

There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.

We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.

What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two?

Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.