Sobre os opostos

"All things come into being by conflict of opposites, and the sum of things (τὰ ὅλα ta hola, "the whole") flows like a stream."

 

"Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony."

 

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

 

"When is death not within ourselves?... Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old."

“What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.”

Heraclitus


"Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin."

Hermann Hesse


"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet."

Andy Warhol

Performance piece involving a nude couple standing still, flanking a doorway, by Marina Abramovic
Art Basel 2012

 

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“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.” E.E. Cummings