“By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.”

“The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.”

“In short, he was a dope. He often looked to Yossarian like one of those people hanging around modern museums with both eyes together on one side of a face. It was an illusion, of course, generated by Clevinger's predilection for staring fixedly at one side of a question and never seeing the other side at all.”

“To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.”

“There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never be overcome by evil – an evil that is itself eternal but will never succeed in overcoming good – whenever we see this dawn, the blood of old people and children is always shed.”

“A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.”