Feist Quotes

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

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

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth ... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

I think art should stand in its own neutral place, because I think that's how reality always is - it's this duality of being both hopeless and also full of hope.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

Truth is always paradoxical.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

Water is good, but if you have too much, you drown. So is water bad, or is it good? It's both.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.