Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. — William Blake Copy Share Image
If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries. — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.” — Alcibiades Copy Share Image
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you yourself have notions about the Glass Bead Game, expecting more of it than it will give you, or perhaps the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
“I've come to suspect that whenever any ability is difficult to learn and rarely performed well, it's probably because contraries are called… — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
