Quotes About Contradiction

If the subject is neither fully determined by power nor fully determining of power...the subject exceeds the logic of non contradiction, is an excrescence of logic, as it were.

That my agency is riven with paradox does not mean it is impossible. It means only that paradox is the condition of its possibility.

Sexually he was like a dose of anesthetic, he made her go dead all over, but he was so nice!

Sometimes I feel grown up and other times I feel like a little kid. I seem to be more than one person.

Tout homme qui dirige, qui fait quelque chose, a contre lui ceux qui voudraient faire la même chose, ceux qui font précisément le contraire et surtout la grande armée des gens, d'autant plus sévères, qu'ils ne font rien du tout.

They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.

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

A. A violent order is disorder; andB. A great disorder is an order. TheseTwo things are one.

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds.

Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself,

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

He claimed to be an atheist, but he always used religious symbolism...

Great. An asthmatic goon.

Ist es nicht absurd, dass einem die Erinnerung an gute Zeiten viel eher die Tränen in die Augen treibt als die an schlechte?

The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled — it's just the opposite!

Je problematischer der Charakter, desto problemloser erscheint ihm die Welt.

Yes to fingerfucking the dialectic! Or to using the dialectic as a method of fingerfucking the binary!

Tolerance also requires a public acceptance of beliefs and values at odds with our own, beliefs and values that we may consider wrongheaded and even immoral. ... In this context, a morally passionate citizen becomes strangely intolerable.

In spite of everything she did that she shouldn't have done, and everything she didn't do that she should have, something that felt like love was in her and she would take it out at times like this and show it to us and make us hunger for more. All of us, each in our own way.

it was, in fact, possible to accidentally accelerate in reverse.

I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.

The institution of marriage would be damaged. Ideologically, marital morality must be kept intact, in spite of the contradictory facts of sexual life, because marriage is the backbone of the authoritarian family, which in turn is the breeding ground for authoritarian ideologies and character structure.