Quotes about Duality

Every act has both good and evil results. Every act in life yields pairs of opposites in its results. The best we can do is lean toward the light, toward the harmonious relationships that come from compassion with suffering, from understanding the other person.

And then they eat the apple, the knowledge of the opposites.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.

Ideals are good, but people are sometimes not so good.

subversives in the face of totalism have always had to speak twice in the same utterance, once for the official record and once for the truth of bodily reality.

Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.

There are two laws discrete,Not reconciled—Law for man, and law for thing.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

I've learned that anyone capable of adoring you is equally capable of abhorring you.

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.