Quotes About Dualism

Concerning the perception of form, sound, or knowledge, these are not the object of negation; What must be rejected is conceptualized dualism, which is the cause of all miseries.

My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don't love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

Up is infinite. Down is infinite. Pantheism, dualism, pluralism!

I loved Leeds but I also loved Galatasaray.

Plato and Aristotle.....survived to become the twin pillars of philosophic and scientific thinking in the Western world, supporting the massive edifice of Christianity. Plato's Theory of Forms, with it's inherent contempt for the physical world, and Aristotle's biological dualism, in which females were seen as failed males, provided the intellectual apparatus for the centuries of misogyny that were to follow.

We might say that Western thinking is uniformly dualistic in its nature, whereas Eastern thinking is founded upon monism, whose overarching conception of reality is based on a single unifying principle rather than paired opposites.

Grounded in the neo-platonic dualistic separation of the sacred and secular worlds, such an understanding has enabled the spread of a race-based hierarchical/patriarchal system that supported the enslavement not just of other human beings but of other Christians, the dehumanization of women and persons of color,

Some people should have two Facebook accounts. One for each face.

I am made of memories. The memories come, and come. We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.

I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.

Having become a citizen of two worlds, the individual must act accordingly. There can be no backsliding, because the individual must reach a state of certainty before this enlightenment is given that makes it utterly and completely impossible to backslide. He cannot 'get it' and then fail and turn from it. If he turns from it, it means he never had it. If he fails, he fails himself. He cannot fail the infinite.

He who knows not that the Prince of Darkness is the other face of the King of Light knows not me.

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

Yes, of course my father harmed and caused a lot of damage but both stories are true. He did things to help and destroy Colombia, both are true.

The river flowed both ways.

El dolor es inevitable porque es parte de la condición humana, mientras que el sufrimiento es una creación de la mente dualista.

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.

In the political and theological realms we are still stuck on the merry-go-round of church and state, capitalism and communism, Christian or Jew, Catholic or Protestant. We seem incapable of envisioning anything other than the dualistic and tired stalemate of contemporary patriarchal polity...

Even the most white-manized Sioux is still half horse.

I'm not the 'Yuki' Zero knows anymore... Because the vampire side of me..ate the other part...

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

As Democritus said so simply many centuries ago: "Water can be both good and bad, useful and dangerous. To the danger, however, a remedy has been found: learning to swim.