Rick Tumlinson Quotes

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

no light no dark no you no me know light know dark know you know me

You cannot experience yourself as what you are until you've encountered what you are not

A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

As we're standing there I realize we're almost exactly the same height. We must look like the dark and light side of an Oreo cookie, and I think how just as easily it could have been the other way around. She could be blocking my path; I could be trying to slip around her into the dark.

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

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

Shadow owes its birth to light.

She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

'Carnival Row' is us looking at the stranger; 'The Curiosity' is the stranger looking at us.

It's so easy just to see the one-to-one narrative between presence and non-presence.

I'm La Flame at all times. That, at times, can be bad, at times can be good.

My neighbors are quiet. I am not. I don't know if they're dead or alive.

I love to have contrast.

Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.

We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate.

What darkness to you is light to me

You find out who you are by figuring out who and what you're not

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.