Ashwin Sanghi Quotes

Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty.

Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.

Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.

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

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

Mankind is composed of two sorts of men — those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.

I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain. Power to amuse and horrify. There was in that hand the demonic and the divine at one and the same time. The demonic and the divine were two aspects of the same force. Creation was demonic and divine. Creativity was demonic and divine. I was demonic and divine.

Devil and God – two sides of the same face.

Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.

The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

Contradiction is the essence of the universe.

That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.

We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of meaning is united to what is senseless. The spirit of the universe is at once creative and destructive — it creates while it destroys and destroys while it creates, and therefore it remains to us a riddle. And we must inevitably resign ourselves to this.

You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.

We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.

Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.

The world is full of contradiction.

We live in an essential and unresolvable tension between our unity with nature and our dangerous uniqueness. Systems that attempt to place and make sense of us by focusing exclusively either on the uniqueness or the unity are doomed to failure. But we must not stop asking and questing because the answers are complex and ambiguous.

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.

I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many -- myself and humanity in flux.