Quotes About Contradiction

Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action; and on no other terms can a being with human faculties have any rational assurance of being right.

He found Washington at once august and disgusting.

Freud's ideas, as usual, turned out to be both remarkably prescient and utterly wrong.

Are you the thing you want most, or its' opposite? If I want nothing more than water, is it because I am water or because I have none?

And I, a twister, love, what I abhor.

I respect everything I make fun of.

I hate and I love, Catullus said, speaking of that Clodia Pulcher whose family caused so much difficulty in Rome, even in our time and long after her death. It is not enough; but what better way might we begin to discover that self which is never wholly pleased or displeased with what the world offers?

Edith smiled at him with a curious mixture of fondness and contempt.

How contrary an animal is man, who most treasures what he refuses or abandons! ("Augustus")

Like all parents she is dichotomous, what she really wants is a child genius who is perfectly normal.

But I've never despised myself so much as I did that day - she was so small and - so fierce, so beautiful , it was like breaking a hawk's wings, stopping up a clear spring with bricks - digging up roses to make space to park your tank. Pointless and ugly.

Peace Is Nothing Without Anger

There are "well-known secrets" out there and there are people who are "so happy they could die." Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, they're right. Basically what I'm saying is, I usually don't know what people are talking about.

Just the mother, father, and two little baby deer lit by the reddish glow of the setting sun. It was so beautiful, so perfect, so wonderful, and I thought, "Oh, I wish I had a gun." I could've just  Ã¢â'¬Â¦ BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG! I could have shot 'em, gutted em, skinned em, then sprinkled em on my cereal.

The domestic cat is a bit of a contradiction. It freely accepts human friendship while never allowing even the most contented life to dim its sense of who it is and what it is capable of.

Human nature. I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

he was almost repulsive, without a single redeeming trait, Asa thought, watching him as the car rolled away, but a pillar, nevertheless, of a respectable world.

Sunset Towers faced east and had no towers.

The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

He reminds me of Robin Williams at the end of Dead Poets Society - there's a little smile on his face, but you know he's actually as sad as he's ever been in his whole life.

How can your worst nightmare also be your wildest dream?" -Maisie

We too often laughed at the same time to be a whore and a lonely guy.

She was everything he'd ever wanted in a woman, and nothing he'd ever thought to find in a lady.

It was as if the world was presenting her with everything she wanted ... in all the wrong ways.