206 Quotes About Duality

... I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken heart with the pangs, sordid in my young mind, of wounded vanity. I had not yet learnt how contradictory is human nature; I did not know how much pose there is in the sincere. how much baseness in the noble, nor how much goodness in the reprobate.

Gamache nodded. It was what made his job so fascinating, and so difficult. How the same person could be both kind and cruel, compassionate and wretched. Unraveling a murder was more about getting to know the people than the evidence. People who were contrary and contradictory, and who often didn't even know themselves.

In appearance, this locus is a simple one; a matter of pure reciprocity: we read a text in which the writer is in turn reading to us. But it isn’t a text, it’s a mirrror. It offers us at last that enchantment of the double.

Always questioning what the mirror shows us (for there is no duality of you/me in higher consciousness).

...all that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.;

Without injustices,the name of justicewould mean what?

If their own duplicity deserts human beings, then the roles are reversed: it is the machine that goes gaga, that falters and becomes perverse, diabolic, ventriloquous. The duplicity merrily goes over to the other side. If subjective irony disappears - and it disappears in the play of the digital- then irony becomes objective. Or it becomes silence.

I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces.

In his article, Bogen concluded: “I believe [with Wigan] that each of us has two minds in one person. There is a host of detail to be marshaled in this case. But we must eventually confront directly the principal resistance to the Wigan view: that is, the subjective feeling possessed by each of us that we are One. This inner conviction of Oneness is a most cherished opinion of Western Man. . . .