Quotes about Duality
Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.
— Victor Hugo
Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other.
— Victor Hugo
The devil may visit us, but God lives here.
— Victor Hugo
The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.
— Milan Kundera
We live in two different dimensions, you and I.
— Milan Kundera
You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
— Robert Frost
Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.
— Carl Sagan
All concepts, including those of "unity" and of duality, are foreign to experience which can be described as non-conceptual.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
I can give you the King's English and then I can take it to the street, but do both or do one and don't do one knowing only the street. That's going to hold you back because what comes out is going to impress people, and it will impress them negatively.
— Angela Bassett
Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.
— Herman Melville
It may very well be that there's a villain and a hero inside each of us, and each day we have a choice of who we want to be.
— Shane Claiborne
Do not expect consistency. Everything is a contradiction of everything else. Nothing exists but contradictions.
— Ayn Rand