Quotes about Duality

I can give you the King's English and then I can take it to the street, but do both or do one and don't do one knowing only the street. That's going to hold you back because what comes out is going to impress people, and it will impress them negatively.

Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.

It may very well be that there's a villain and a hero inside each of us, and each day we have a choice of who we want to be.

Do not expect consistency. Everything is a contradiction of everything else. Nothing exists but contradictions.

Only the man who extols the purity of a love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love. But observe that most people are creatures cut in half who keep swinging desperately to one side or to the other.

I'm always looking at the dialectic between the truth we believe exists outside ourselves and the truth we invent for ourselves.

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

Everything that is fear cannot be love, and everything that is love cannot be fear.

One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.