Ken Wilber Quotes

Out of all things bad, something good. Out of all things good, something bad.

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.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

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

Shadow owes its birth to light.

A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

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

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

You can't have something without nothing.

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

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

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.

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

Every side of a coin has another side.

'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all the time. In a way they are like yin and yang.