Quotes about Duality

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

Simplicity is no virtue unless you are potentially complicated.

That horrible Benito Hoover! And yet the man had meant well enough. Which only made it, in a way, much worse. Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

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.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

I was adept at fooling the deity. I prayed immediately after all crimes until eventually prayer and crime became indistinguishable to me.

Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil.

Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

but as God created life, so did He create destruction.

For green is love and luck just as it is jealousy and envy

My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.