Complementary Opposites Quotes

The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.

The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object and the subject, the day and the night. It goes on dividing things which are not divided. Neither is the day divided from the night, nor is birth divided from death. They are one energy. But mind goes on dividing everything into polarities, opposites. Nothing is opposite in existence; every contradiction is only apparent. Deep down all contradictions are meeting together.

The only human being I could tell everything was my sister Françoise. She and I were so diametrically different; put together we would have been a fantastic woman.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.