Dichotomy Quotes

We are only different because there exists something to be different from, and it is this difference that bonds us.

You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.

James Richardson

By setting such strong, harsh dichotomies God taught Israel that any assimilation to pagan idolatry is intolerable. It was His way of preserving Israel’s spiritual health and posterity. God knew that if these Canaanite children were allowed to live, they would spell the undoing of Israel. The killing of the Canaanite children not only served to prevent assimilation to Canaanite identity but also served as a shattering, tangible illustration of Israel’s being set exclusively apart for God.

William Lane Craig

There are two kinds of perfect: The one you can never achieve, and the other, by just being yourself.

All you do is think. Because all you do is think, you've constructed two separate worlds—one inside your head and one outside. Just the fact that you tolerate this enormous dissonance—why, that's a great intangible failure already.

Sōseki Natsume

Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention

You're thoughtful, Barbara, but you're not open. You're passionate, but you're hard. You're a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you, but you're a pain in the ass.

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.