Quotes about Duality
The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
- Marquis de Sade
Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
- CS Lewis
I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
- Mahatma Gandhi
A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.
- George Bernard Shaw
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
- GK Chesterton
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.
- Henry Parry Liddon
we're all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can't tell which is which
- Madeleine L'Engle
A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses, is not flawed but complete.
- Deepak Chopra