1,011 Quotes About Opposites

...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.;

The trappings of success bring the opposite of success in the ways most meaningful to people's lives.

If we accept that opposites (or gradations of circumstances, or differences in ways of being) are all part of the same hologram of life (just as we need different shades and colours to make up a picture), then we can see that we need all those aspects to make up our world.

Without injustices,the name of justicewould mean what?

If we can stay with the tension ofopposites long enough —sustain it,be true to it—we can sometimesbecome vessels within which thedivine opposites come together andgive birth to a new reality.

Every true heart needed a pragmatic counterweight, and every cynic an idealist to lift his spirits.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

Yes, storms are damaging, but we need them because they clear away the bracken that prevents new flowers from having a chance to grow. And of course we need the sun to shine on those new flowers that without the storm might never have had a chance to bloom.

The dream has a very striking way of dealing with the category of opposites and contradictions. This is simply disregarded. To the dream 'No' does not seem to exist. In particular, it prefers to draw opposites together into a unity or to represent them as one. Indeed, it also takes the liberty of representing some random element by its wished-for opposite, so that at first one cannot tell which of the possible poles is meant positively or negatively in the dream-thoughts.