Quotes about Duality
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
— George Bernard Shaw
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
— Frank Herbert
The extreme of right is the extreme of wrong.
— Cicero
I beliebe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.
— Margaret Atwood
Aunt Lydia, you are too good," he will beam. Too good to be true, I will think. Too good for this earth. Good, be thou my evil.
— Margaret Atwood
I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.
— Margaret Atwood
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
— CS Lewis
Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
— Audre Lorde
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.
— George Bernard Shaw
The faults of the burglar are the qulaities of the financier.
— George Bernard Shaw
Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar