Quotes about Duality

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you." This could be a drawing, in words, even a song. Just remember that the chances are good it will be full of paradox and contradictions.

If we continue to focus solely on the sinner/saint duality in our person and conduct, while ignoring the raging opposition between the Pharisee and the child, spiritual growth will come to an abrupt standstill.

There is within you a lamb and a lion. Spiritual maturity is the ability to let lamb and lion lie down together.

I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both.

I need thy hate as much as thy love.

Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.