Quotes about Duality
And then they eat the apple, the knowledge of the opposites.
— Joseph Campbell
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
— Ravi Zacharias
Ideals are good, but people are sometimes not so good.
— Joseph Heller
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.
— Walter Brueggemann
Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
— Aesop
Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two laws discrete,Not reconciled—Law for man, and law for thing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've learned that anyone capable of adoring you is equally capable of abhorring you.
— Beth Moore
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.
— John Bunyan
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