Paul Virilio Quotes

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

Nothing exists without its opposite.

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.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.

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.

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

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.

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.

It's so easy just to see the one-to-one narrative between presence and non-presence.

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

if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.

Life, in all its uniqueness, would not be life without the negatives and the positives.

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

You can't have something without nothing.

I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.

You cannot dissociate birth from death, creation from destruction, good from evil. Thus any art is a form of drama standing between the two extreme poles of birth and death, just like life is drama. This is not sad, because to be alive means to be mortal, to pass through.

What is and what is not create each other.

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