Top 179 Duality Quotes & Sayings

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

Duality is always secretly unity.

Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a primal duality breaks the humanity I know into two distinct parts; that this duality is a fundamental, and that all differences among you gentiles are trivialities compared with that which divided all of you from us.

There' s a duality in myself, and it's also what I try and instill in my roles.

I have no difficulty with career duality!

My work on symmetries of string theory is on what is known as strong-weak coupling duality, or S-duality.

In presence, there is no right or wrong, because there is no duality. There is no judgment.

Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him? The individual suffers because he perceives duality. It is duality which causes all sorrow and grief. Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering.

Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.

That's the quality of the Spirit that you start feeling so joyous and the joy doesn't have the duality of happiness and unhappiness. It's singular.

The duality of St Petersburg and Leningrad remains. They are not even on speaking terms.

There is nothing wrong with duality as long as it does not create conflict. Multiplicity and variety without strife is joy. In pure consciousness there is light. For warmth, contact is needed. Above the unity of being is the union of love. Love is the purpose of duality.

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you're both championing a character and you're revolted by them.

The feminine aspect has been crushed for millennia in most cultures. I believe the future lies in a balance of the male/female duality

The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.

Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18)

In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.

Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.

Before you touch anybody you have to make sure that you are as pure as possible. If you don't purify yourself of all the inner duality, negativity can prevail through the flow of the psyche.

The ignorant soul bride wanders in delusion, in the love of duality, she sits like a widow. She sits like a widow, in the love of duality, infatuated with Maya, she suffers in pain. She grows old, and her body withers away.

If you don't have the background awareness of oneness, duality becomes real.

I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California.

The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit. To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality.

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

I have put duality away. I have seen the two worlds are one.

When you awaken, you know that everything that occurs at the level of mind is illusory in nature and so you no longer believe in it as the truth of life. It is sometimes happy and sometimes sad, because it is a world of duality. You relax and accept the dual nature of the world of the mind and the world of experience within time. This will create balance within duality which will open the doorway to Oneness.

This is what meditation is all about, just becoming a watcher. Failure comes, success comes, you are praised, you are condemned, you are respected, you are insulted - all kinds of things come, they are all dualities. And you go on watching. Watching the duality, a third force arises in you; a third dimension arises in you. The duality means two dimensions: one dimension is happiness; another is unhappiness. Watching both, a depth arises in you: the third dimension, witnessing, sakshin.

I love Nicole Holofcener's films for their constant duality of humor and emotion and their focus on very real, if flawed, dynamics between funny people.

I am at one with my duality.

To accept duality is to earn identity.

The world has only as much power over you as you give it. Rebel. Go beyond duality.

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others' judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.

As yogis, we are constantly exploring the world of duality, while being acutely aware of the unity of all things.

I feel like humans, when you're faced with decisions, you can go up and down: duality.

[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality.

There are two choices available in duality - one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that.

The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.

Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear.

The I Cing is a study in duality and what lies beyond duality.

The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

You have to kind of embrace the duality of every moment.

Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.

In the universe, there is darkness and light. We call this duality. When you seek knowledge and power, there are forces and people that will oppose you.

The physical universe was created when Oneness became duality, and we can see this duality, this yin and yang, everywhere in the universe, in every atom, every action, and in every function of the human body. Yin and yang are manifest everywhere, except at the very center of being, the perfect point of balance, at that infinite moment where the future becomes the past.

Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways.

I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.

Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds.

Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.

What I love about Hugh Jackman is he just brings all the elements of my vision of Logan. The pain, the nobility, the duality of his existence.

All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.

There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. The mind has to be in the state when it can see, observe. The experience of the observation is really an astonishing state. In that there is no duality. The mind is simply - aware.

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

The direction of life is from duality to unity.

Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are in a controlling situation in duality.