Duality Quotes

“Magic is a two-edged sword; it is a tool, and it is used for good or for evil. It is the wielder who determines its nature.”

“Ecstasy is a glimpse of the infinite; horror is a glimpse of the infinite. Both are species of awe.”

“I'm a guy that appreciates a good time, and I'm a guy that can be real serious and down and just kind of quiet.”

“Africa is a continent of extremes, of contrasts, of light and shade, of laughter and tears, of great poverty and great wealth.”

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

“The goal of my life is to unify 'E' (Ernst, serious) and 'U' (Unterhaltung, entertainment), even if I break my neck in the process.”

“Psycho-analysis has taught us that the sublimest and the most obscene things have a common root.”

“The name Daisy Berkowitz was a combination of Daisy Duke and David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam killer. It was a juxtaposition of good and evil.”

“The spiral is a figure of both order and chaos.”

“Matter is the symbol of Spirit.”

“I think that there's a real duality in all of us.”

“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.”

“It takes two to know one.”

“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence.”

“Every human being, Kreizler, has a darkness within him, however hidden.”

“Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.”

“The great work of man is to integrate the opposites in his own nature.”

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

“The opposite of every truth is just as true.”

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”