Duality Quotes

The profound nature of relativity is not merely an abstraction of physics, it also explains why the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater than from 3 million to 5 million.

Eric Parslow

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else -- an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

Georges Bataille

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

William Blake

It happens as one sees in cages: the birds who are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out

Michel de Montaigne

The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.

Giordano Bruno

Our duality becomes indifference. We just want to live our lives. That's my take anyway.

James Dye

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.

Tanith Lee

To separate oneself or one

Joseph Campbell

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

Siegfried Sassoon

The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

Jean Baudrillard