duality quotes

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Everybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

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.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.