Georg Simmel Quotes

Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.

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.'

I can no more separate my serious concerns about the world from my cockeyed way of seeing it than I can keep apart my personal and professional selves.

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

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

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Every side of a coin has another side.

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

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

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

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

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing.

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.

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Life is weird and complex but very simple at the same time. It's all about perception.

If you take the yin-yang, it has a piece of the other inside itself. You can't be too much of one thing and be balanced.

I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.

Nothing is the shadow of Everything.

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.