Quotes About Contradiction

Contradiction is the external limit of the propositions, tautology their substanceless centre.

Ambiguities everywhere should be collected as evidence of ambivalence.

And I could tell she loved him. And although she was an evil fungus growing on 200 pounds of irritated lard, her feelings were real.

The best and worst of life all rolled into one incident," Mildrede said sadly. "Life never seems to be able to give you one without the other.

Ce ciudate mai sunt È™i relaÈ›iile dintre oameni. Ne purt?m frumos, ba chiar exagerat de frumos, cu acei oameni de care ne e team?, în schimb cu cei timizi È™i retraÈ™i ne purt?m ca niÈ™te despoÈ›i. (...) Cu toÈ›ii avem o natur? dubl?.

mas nem a alma de um homem é tão estreita que não caibam nela coisas contrárias,..

Infelizmente não há bonito sem senão, nem prazer sem amargura. Que mel não deixa um travo de veneno?

Há homens que da simples contradita do adversário concluem pela incompetência dele.

He had found in himself the perfect, undeniable case of insanity. He possessed wisdom, patience, tolerance, truthfulness, loyalty, and moral fortitude—all the qualities that go to make an utter madman.

Não, insistiu o Tenente Porfírio. Repare que para cada provérbio afirmando uma coisa, há outro provérbio afirmando a coisa contrária. Os provérbios mentem.

O coração humano é a região do inesperado, dizia consigo o cético subindo as escadas da repartição.

The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take us all the way.

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things.

I hope you don't mean that," I said finally. "But I do. Alicia represents our church. Therefore, I am against our church. But, like most thinking human beings, I feel the need of a god to worship and to go to for comfort and succor. Therefore I'm going to the devil.

It seemed strange that with so much softness in her actual construction Mamma gave such a feeling of hardness. When

A man could shoot a squirrel out of a tree from a distance of sixty feet. But he couldn't vomit into a bucket or pee into a pot only two feet away. It was one of the great mysteries of life.

He was not a simple man and, consequently, a simple happiness was not in his nature, she concluded, but I did know him to have moments of simple pleasure and obvious joy.

Why is it that married people always say Come in when everything they do says Get out? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you're unmarried.

Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

Taleb likes to invoke Popper: 'No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness. And

In reality, the very thing that gave the giant his size was also the source of his greatest weakness.