Nikola Tesla Quotes

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

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.'

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

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.

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

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

'Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same thing.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

Everything contains its antithesis.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

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.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

It's the nature of man to give and receive - to be man and woman, all in one.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

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