Quotes about Duality
Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Behind the cross stands the devil.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
it is worthy of consideration, indeed marvelous, how besides his life in concreto, a person always leads a second in abstracto as well.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
As a living creature I am part of two kinds of forces--growth and decay, sprouting and withering, living and dying, and at any given moment in our lives, each one of us is actively located somewhere along a continuum between those two forces.
— Audre Lorde
As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.
— Eric Wilson
Truth without grace is what the enemy brings when he comes as an 'angel of light.
— Rick Joyner
There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa."
— Robert Brault
Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.
— Robert Brault
With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.
— Karl Barth
Philosophy of religion is involved in a polarity; like an ellipse it revolves around two foci: philosophy and religion.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
I fear that Christians who stand with only one leg upon earth also stand with only one leg in heaven (12 August 1943).
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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.
— Dolly Parton