Thom Yorke Quotes

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

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

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

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.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.

There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?

Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.

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.

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.

The fairest harmony springs from discord.

You can't have something without nothing.

I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.

The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.

The light is the left hand of darkness.

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.

Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.

You have to show the negative to show the positivity that comes from it.

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

What is and what is not create each other.