Louis de Broglie Quotes

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

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

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.'

I am not by any means a philosopher, although I have worked with some talented people in the discipline. But certain philosophical concepts deeply inform the way I think about the world. The idea of 'opposing truths at extremes' is a powerful concept that I came to appreciate in my twenties.

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.'

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

Truth is always paradoxical.

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

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

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

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

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

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

The sad truth is that the opposite of 'war' is not 'peace'.

It is the fact of life that a truth emerges out of a conflict between two wrongs.

The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.

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

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'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.