Andre Gide Quotes

The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

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

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

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.

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb unless the lamb is inside the lion.

In the affairs of men, there always appears to be a need for at least two things simultaneously, which, on the face of it, seem to be incompatible and to exclude one another. We always need both freedom and order

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

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

I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.

I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that's kinda like what I am.

I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.

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

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.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

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

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

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.

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

Discord gives a relish for concord.

Nature is harmony in discord.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another.

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.