Quotes About Dualism

But it is also told that Niuka forgot to fill two tiny crevices in the blue firmament. Thus began the dualism of love--two souls rolling through space and never at rest until they join together to complete the universe. Everyone has to build anew his sky of hope and peace.

I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.

I'm half Jewish, half Christian. I'm a Jew for Jesus.

Zoroastrianism;

One part of me is happy only in America, the other only in Europe. Without Americans, I would be very much at home in my country.

When people think of me, they think about me knocking catchers down and knocking second basemen down and yelling at pitchers. But when I took the spikes off after the game, I was a nice guy when I went home.

Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.

I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.

I love America. I lived here too but my links are exclusively Italian.

The essential feature of dualist-interactionism is that the mind and brain are independent entities...and that they interact by quantum physics.

Our life in historical or chronological time, measuring and minding, cautious and comparing, forms the horizontal arm of the cross. Our experience of the unqualified, of inner, immeasurable time (or timelessness), is the cross's vertical pole. We live in two kinds of time or perspective simultaneously. The horizontal and the vertical are at once quite distinct and entirely overlapping, and to experience their incongruity and confluence is what it means to be human.

Two sets of memory warred in the woman, and the war was getting worse.

With her it was like there was two places—the inside room and the outside room.

I am mentally bifocal.

l'homme, lui aussi, est un être dualiste. Le problème de son âme consiste dans le conflit entre le physique et le métaphysique, et tout ce qui est social demeure secondaire.

Even at the moment of direct perception when gnostic awareness of emptiness as form and form as emptiness is experienced, the mind is preparing to dualize the situation.

Black women would become at least doubly victimized, thoroughly entrapped by a sexist and racist sacred dualistic ideology that implied their inhumanity.

Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.

In the first place, a possible Hellenistic dualism is shattered by the vivid apocalyptic eschatology of 3:10ff. Entrance into God's eternal Kingdom (1:11) is not the apotheosis of the soul at death but entrance into the new heavens and new earth (Isa. 65:17; 66:22).

The Hebrew view of humanity is very different from the Greek view. There is no trace of dualism. The Hebrew word for body (gewiyyâ) occurs only fourteen times in the Old Testament5 and never stands in contrast to the soul (neeš).

Thus, if materialism is inadequate to explain my existence, then spiritualism is equally insufficient for this purpose.

There is also the evident dualism between those who know (the jargon, made of discourse etc.) and those who do not, who are not really using language but being used by it.

Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to argue against the thesis that everything is purely physical. Now many people, I think, agree that the idea of zombies are conceivable, including people who want to be physicalists.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.