Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

I think there's a yin and a yang to everything.

Nature is harmony in discord.

Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything supports everything else.

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

Nature moves towards balance.

I am two with nature.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

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

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

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

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.