Quotes about Duality

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you. . .Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

The faults of the burglar are the qulaities of the financier.

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

For what is that which we call evil but the absence of good?

In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

Christ is on both sides: he holdeth up, and throweth down, in one and the same act; he denieth the woman to be his, and is on her side to grace her, to believe that he is her's. Christ putteth his child away, and he desireth that his child should not be put away from him; he is for Jacob in his wrestling, and as if he were against him, saith, 'Let me alone.' Christ here doth both hold and draw, oppose and defend at once.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

And out of good still to find means of evil.