Best Janus Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“Religion and ideology are two faces of the same Janus. Both lead to suppression of disagreement and hence become fossilized. Such fossilization leads to extreme reverence for the text and the increased authority of the written word, written in an age gone by so long ago that in the present it is clearly anachronistic.”

Religion Ideology Disagreement Suppression Text Janus Fossilization

Author:R. N. Prasher

“Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...”

Religion Schopenhauer Janus Yama

Book:Essays and aphorisms

Source: Essays and aphorisms

“The Janus Symbiosis by Stewart Stafford Ambition's fruition never matches, The reach of the expanding ego, Then its imperious Siamese twin, Savagely seeks sanguine satiation. Who shall be the meat for the feast? What shall the slaughter method be? A blood sport for the VIP Narcissus, Spitting bones through a rictus grin. Sycophants surround the Janus figure, Wheat and chaff to the scythe's blade, Starving out any vestiges of moral fibre, Lumps on the humps of the all-powerful. © Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved”

Power Ego Ambition Sociopath Sadism Symbiosis Narcissists Sycophants Janus Siamese Twins

Author:Stewart Stafford

“You’re back. I was watching out for you,” said Ash. “How did you know I was coming?” Janus asked. “I didn’t. I just sometimes look out to see if you might come. That’s all.”

Janus Ash Morgenstern

Book:Ghosts of the Shadow Market

Source: Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“So many times since Clary died, Janus had swung around thinking he would see her, hoping desperately for a ghost, for a whisper, for anything but this endless darkness without her. He had to stop wishing for her, stop hoping for her, stop searching for her. He had to burn his heart out until there was nothing left but ash. No matter where he looked, she was never there.”

Jace Herondale Janus Clary Fairchild Thule

Book:Ghosts of the Shadow Market

Source: Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“No more fantasies, no more dreams. He knew then that none of the illusions he’d tried to fool himself with had ever even come close. Every detail had been wrong, everything in the world had been wrong, and everything about himself.”

Jace Herondale Janus Clary Fairchild Thule

Book:Ghosts of the Shadow Market

Source: Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires constant vigilance against entropic noise. Order is not spontaneous, but it is a necessary condition for all the surprises of freedom and opportunity.”

Order Choices Opportunity Conditions Economics Constant Surprise Noise Spontaneous Freedom Of Choice Vigilance Entropy Carrier Janus

Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. His self-assertive tendency is the dynamic manifestation of his unique wholeness, his autonomy and independence as a holon. Its equally universal antagonist, the integrative tendency, expresses his dependence on the larger whole to which he belongs: his 'part-ness.'.”

Men Self Whole Unique Universal Independence Tendencies Manifestation Islands Dependent Entity Inward Wholeness Dependence Autonomy Assertive Antagonist Self Contained Janus

Author:Arthur Koestler

“I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.”

Two Past Half Too Much Combination Warning Pollyanna Janus

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".”

Knows Faces Actors House Cases Cards Labels Hypocrisy Charming Motto Business Card Janus

Author:Albert Camus

“Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.”

Past Repentance Janus

Book:Romance and Reality

Source: Romance and Reality

“It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”

Source: The mortgaged heart

“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”

Known Nostalgia Great Travel Homesickness Homesick Jukebox Janus Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Familiar Places

Book:Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings

Source: Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings

“Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.”

Men Justice Dues Copies Masterpiece Renaissance Jonah Hamilton Janus

Author:Gordon Korman

“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”

Known Strange Travel Nostalgia Familiar Urges Torn Great Travel Road Trip Homesickness Homesick Jukebox Janus Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Familiar Places

Book:Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings

Source: Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings

“Hermes rolled his eyes. "Surely you've seen network TV lately. It's clear they don't know whether they're coming or going. That's because Janus is in charge of programming. He loves ordering new shows and cancelling them after two episodes. God of beginnings and endings, after all. Anyway, I was bringing him some magic doormats, and I was double-parked -" "You have to worry about double-parking?" "Will you let me tell the story?" "Sorry."”

Knows Two Stories Shows Eye Worry Clear Magic Tvs Let Me Sorry His Eyes Programming Episodes Parking Beginnings And Endings Hermes Doormat Janus

Author:Rick Riordan

“Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the past is everything, being nothing!”

Looks Art Past Half Mystery Modern Blind Charm Flats Thyself Idolatry Antiquity Wondrous Veneration Janus

Book:Essays of Elia

Source: Essays of Elia

“He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.”

Two Faces Poet Admire Admiration Despise Scarce Janus

Author:John Dryden

“Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!”

Ideas Genius Criticism Myth Symbols Domain Binary Janus

Author:Honore de Balzac