Coniunctio Oppositorum Quotes & Sayings

Define the limits of your vision: Having this, you will not be poorer Than a man who rules a dukedom. — Su Shi

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it. — Heinrich Boll

I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy. — Paula Poundstone

What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you. — Emma Donoghue

He has a face like composted Broccoli — Lauren DeStefano

Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow. — Gregory Maguire

The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light, and consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight. The encounter between conscious and unconscious has to ensure that the light which shines in the darkness is not only comprehended by the darkness, but comprehends it. The filius solis et lunae (the son of the Sun and Moon) is the possible result as well as the symbol of this union of opposites. It is the alpha and omega of the process, the mediator and intermedius. "It has a thousand names," say the alchemists, meaning that the source from which the individuation process rises and the goal toward which it aims is nameless, ineffable. — C. G. Jung

While it shows the gods as no better than the rest of us," she said, "at least, it shows them as no worse. See here the sources of human morality. — Roger Zelazny

A person who has read widely but not well deserves to be pitied rather than praised. As — Mortimer J. Adler

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me. — F Scott Fitzgerald