Quotes About Contradiction

In problems of logic, contradictory statements cannot be true; in the psyche, only contradictions are true. Self-image and shadow are Siamese twins, and the psyche is equally formed by the conscious and unconscious. Whatever appears to be true on the surface is linked to an opposite truth beneath the surface. What you see is not what you get.

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the up button.

It's simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Indeed, he was a contradiction. Ray Bradbury was a nostalgic visionary: He predicted the past and remembered the future.

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously described the importance of being able "to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time," while still retaining "the ability to function." I was quickly becoming practiced at this discomfiting balance.

all these calculations yes explanations yes the whole story from beginning to end yes completely false yes

Birth was the death of him.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear?About two hundred pounds a year.And that which was proved true before,Prove false again? Two hundred more.

God is Love -- I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is

To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again Two hundred more.

Coffee isn't my cup of tea.

For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.

The concept of a writer writing a vivid and accurate scene in a language transparent and devoid of decoration so that we see through to the object without writerly distraction suffers the same contradiction as the concept of a painter painting a vivid and accurate scene with pigments transparent and devoid of color, including white and black—so that the paint will not get between us and the picture.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

It's an incredible paradox that being a doctor is so degrading and yet is so valued by society

Well, Earwig, there's not much about love that does make sense.

Her sadness was an ecstasy, a guilt, an assignation.