Quotes About Contradiction

Birth was the death of him.

We weep for gladness, weep for grief; The tears they are the same; We sigh for longing, and relief; The sighs have but one name, And mingled in the dying strife, Are moans that are not sad The pangs of death are throbs of life, Its sighs are sometimes glad.

To say a man might disobey and be none the worse would be to say that no might be yes and light sometimes darkness.

A devil - A power that lives against its life

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

You could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.

I have known numbers of bourgeois Socialists, I have listened by the hour to their tirades against their own class, and yet never, not even once, have I met one who had picked up proletarian table-manners.

The tendency of mechanical progress is to make your environment safe and soft; and yet you are striving to keep yourself brave and hard...So in the last analysis the champion of progress is also the champion of anachronisms.

Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.

George Orwell

La double pensée est le pouvoir de garder à l'esprit simultanément deux croyances contradictoires, et de les accepter toutes deux.

There is a word in Newspeak,' said Syme, 'I don't know whether you know it: duckspeak, to quack like a duck. It is one of those interesting words that have two contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse; applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.

Una paz que fuera de verdad permanente sería lo mismo que una guerra permanente. Este es el sentido verdadero de la consigna del Partido: la guerra es la paz.

I have managed to make the Capitalist class pay me several pounds a week for writing books against Capitalism.

As soon as he touched her she seemed to wince and stiffen. To embrace her was like embracing a jointed wooden image. And what was strange was that even when she was clasping him against her he had the feeling that she was simultaneously pushing him away with all her strength.

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully-constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them; to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy;

After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself.

Listen. The more men you've had, the more I love you. Do you understand that? I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

La guerra es paz, la libertad es esclavitud, la ignorancia es la fuerza

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Tanr? bana sinekleri kovay?m diye bir kuyruk vermi?; ama ke?ke sinekler de olmasayd?, kuyru?um da.

For the hair has grown on my upper lip And the clergy are all clean-shaven

He was the tormentor, he was the protector, he was the inquisitor, he was the friend

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