Joseph Roux Quotes

Appearances frequently deceive us, and what at first sight carries with it the face of good proves to be a real evil, whilst an apparent evil oftentimes conceals an extraordinary good

Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth; Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

Hmmmm Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.

A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

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

Everything has good and bad.

Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate.

There's always a ying-yang in life. With everybody. There's evil in all of us. It's just about how you balance out the evil and the good and having faith in yourself and how you carry yourself.

Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.

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

Darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream.

Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.

How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing.

Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

I was still using my eyes even though I had them shut.

The jester is brother to the sage.

Good to evil seems evil

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.