“Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this?” IfsTogetherSexLossPleasureCreationBuddhismOppositesUnionsOneselfSexualityTemporaryComing TogetherWhat Is LifeYangYin And Yang Author:Frederick Lenz
“We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules.” IfsMenWorldWantMindMayLittlesBookDifferentForceGrowthQualityStyleTasteOppositesCatholicUnionsExcellenceNotionSpreadVarietyIntolerancePreciseArbitraryCapriciousSophistryDifferent Minds Author:William Hazlitt
“In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement - the number restriction (two and only two) - is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice.” PeopleIfsYearsFirstsTwoChoicesIndividualNumbersRightsGayYears AgoOppositesPrejudiceUnionsGenderTraditionalDefinedDenialLogicalRequirementsEssaysArbitraryGay MarriageRestrictionGay RightsExclusionPolygamyAutonomousTraditional MarriageIndividual Choice Author:Charles Krauthammer
“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.” NaturalPerfectResultsOppositesHarmonyUnionsComplementaryPerfect Harmony Author:Stefan Zweig
“If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.” IfsMatterHappensSpiritDarkConsciousOppositesThirdsUnionsCompromiseUnconsciousSomething NewConscious And Unconscious Book:Mysterium coniunctionis Source: Mysterium coniunctionis
“Unions say, 'Education of the children is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market.' The opposite is true. Education is too important to be left to the calcified union/government monopoly.” ChildrenImportantGovernmentLeftOppositesUnionsMonopolyTrue Education Author:John Stossel
“Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.” MindCultureNamesPathMiddleConceptsOppositesFundamentalsUnionsWesternChineseInwardLackingTaoItemsMiddle Path Book:Two Essays on Analytical Psychology Source: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
“And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade.” DoeFactsEarthTurnsCultureSpaceLevelsFeetOppositesRaisesUnionsStriveClaritySensitiveParadoxIntensitySanityMudClosureEcoRegularityFuseHallucinogens Author:Terence McKenna
“A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would disarm them. And so it has been in this century. Check out the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China and Cambodia.” PeopleHas BeensGovernmentLibertyCenturyProtectGunOppositesUnionsChinaPlanningChecksGermanySovietGun ControlSoviet UnionCubaCambodia Author:Charley Reese