Douglas Wilson Quotes

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.

When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 A.M. That first blush of blue is where the night and day are trying to find harmony with each other. Harmony is the notes that Mozart didn't give you, but somehow the contradiction of his notes suggest that. All contradictions of his notes suggest the harmony.

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.

Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.

When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.

Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?

Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.