Chris Crutcher Quotes

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

You can't have something without nothing.

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

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.

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.

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.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

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

Shadow owes its birth to light.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

I'm all about polarities and juxtapositions.

I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.

Life really is a series of contrasts.

I'm drawn between the light and dark.

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.

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.

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.

There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.

The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.

Every side of a coin has another side.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.