Quotes About Contradiction

Antiwater would look and feel and behave the same way as regular water except that if you drank it you would explode in a blinding flash of light, which, we admit, would be antirefreshing.

En esa foto personal e imaginaria, la dama blanca viste de negro y tiene las facciones duras y a la vez sensuales. Parece una asesina a sueldo, pero en realidad es una emperatriz provista de un puñal. Y resulta que ese puñal vengo a ser yo.

La tierra es madre de todos, pero también da ponzoña

Believing in chance is like believing in miracles. Both things must assume that God does not know the future. What is a chance? It is something that absolutely no one can foresee. What is a miracle? It is a contradiction, a subversion of the laws of Nature. Both contradiction and lack of foresight imply imperfection in the Intelligence that governs the machinery of the world.

Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.

A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us; and I believe the story of Argus implies no more than that the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself.

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.

What you get, you don't want, and what you want, you don't get. David Irving, Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich (Focal Point Publications, 2014), Pp. 67

And our understanding of that motion remains fundamentally paradoxical.

That's one of the damnedest things I ever found out about human emotions and how treacherous they can be - the fact that you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it. Not to speak of the fact that you can hate a person with all your heart and soul and still long for that person.

Essa é uma das piores coisas que descobri sobre as emoções humanas e como elas podem ser muito traiçoeiras — o fato de que é possível odiar um lugar de todo coração e com toda a alma e ainda sentir saudade. Sem falar que é possível odiar uma pessoa de todo o coração e com toda a alma e ainda suspirar por ela.

And his fondness of people matched his low opinion of them.

Philosophy is unruliness, it is exploring both sides of the issue, it is defending a position and then destroying it, it is looking for hidden contradictions, it is wondering what you will, how you will, or that you will.

Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, and a body that is worth about 98¢.

como cierto misticismo islámico, para el cual no hay ninguna contradicción entre sexo y misticismo, y siendo para algunos incluso una vía de unión mística,

Only an atheist can be a good Christian.

As an anarch, who acknowledges neither law nor custom, I owe it to myself to get at the very heart of things. I then probe them in terms of their contradictions, like image and mirror image. Either is imperfect – by seeking to unite them, which I practice every morning, I manage to catch a corner of reality.

There is no defect without its own virtue and vice versa.

Les livres sont la plus grande contradiction des barreaux. Ils ouvrent le plafond de la cellule du prisonnier allongé sur son lit.

Certamente la rivoluzione va difesa e sviluppata con logica inesorabile; ma non si deve e non si può difenderla con mezzi che contraddicono ai suoi fini. [...] Se per vincere si dovesse elevare la forca nelle piazze, io preferirei perdere.

Certainement, la révolution a à se défendre et à se développer avec une logique inexorable, mais on ne doit, et on ne peut la défendre avec des moyens qui sont en contradiction avec ses fins.

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

Most of us will get turned on at night by the very same things that we will demonstrate against during the day — the erotic mind is not very politically correct.

Whenever someone acts one way in public - goes overboard, if you know what i mean - it'll turn out they have an opposite side. The quietest person will have the worst temper. The happiest person will suffer the worst depressions. The best thing about a person is the worst thing.