Quotes about Duality

The image of God has a shadow. The supreme meaning is real and casts a shadow. For what can be actual and corporeal and have no shadows?

Light and darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being in joyful rhythm.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.

The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

The woman of my dreams. The woman of my nightmares. Everything good and bad about my life. The "I do" that "I didn't.

All too many Christians have behaved as though the devil were a first principle, on the same footing as god. They have paid more attention to evil and the problem of its eradication than to good and the methods by which individual goodness may be deepened, and the sum of goodness increased.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.

On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matryoshka "nested dolls" that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside…it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a mysterious combination of good and evil, wisdom and folly, reason and instinct… (pp.80)

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.… Thus is the Devil ever God's ape.