Quotes about Duality
Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil
- Seneca
There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Woman is at once apple and serpent.
- Heinrich Heine
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
- Marquis de Sade
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.… Thus is the Devil ever God's ape.
- Martin Luther
many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
- Martin Luther
For so it usually happens in the world. Righteous men are regarded as sinners and vice versa.
- Martin Luther
Twin Peaks was my religion. Well, Twin Peaks and Christianity. But at present, Twin Peaks was winning. I loved God, but at the moment I was more obsessed with Bob and Dale Cooper and Audrey Horne.
- Moby
the line between good and evil does not lie between "us" and "them," between the West and the rest, between Left and Right, between rich and poor. That fateful line runs down the middle of each of us, every human society, every individual.
- NT Wright
What matters is eschatological duality (the present age and the age to come), not ontological dualism (an evil "earth" and a good "heaven").
- NT Wright