Thomas Malthus Quotes

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

Heavy is the root of light.

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.

Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.

Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.

A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another.

Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

You can't have something without nothing.

Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!

My opinion about Miller's experiments is the following. ... Should the positive result be confirmed, then the special theory of relativity and with it the general theory of relativity, in its current form, would be invalid. Experimentum summus judex. Only the equivalence of inertia and gravitation would remain, however, they would have to lead to a significantly different theory.

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

I am part of the load not rightly balanced . . .

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.

There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.

Unbalance so as to re-balance.