Quotes About Contradiction

In few places is there such a high concentration of hypocrisy as at a writer's funeral.

Estamos construidos a base de incoherencias, y es nuestra capacidad para convivir con ese material inestable lo que nos permite prosperar.

Victoria Ocampo era por cierto una oligarca, pero no todas las oligarcas eran Victoria Ocampo. Las damas de la alta sociedad, como se decía entonces, no empleaban su dinero y su tiempo en la difusión de las letras ni abrazaban la causa del feminismo ni transgredían costumbres establecidas, ni se animaban a proclamar su agnosticismo; nada tenían en común con Victoria

What did she love Shelley for? His reckless spontaneity -- like this. His helpless generous nature -- like this. His treatment of her as a reasonable human being and not a trembling little rose -- and so on. If she loved him for these things, could she hate him for them? Could she?

How odd that we always exclaim over children growing, as if in the ordinary run of things they shrink

I thought you didn't believe in marriage." "A man who never contradicts himself must become horribly bored with his own conversation. Oh, on the whole I don't believe in it, except when there is genuine love, which is such a compound of affection, warmth, ease, esteem, and various other spices and condiments rarer than powdered hen's teeth that one hardly expects to come across it once in a lifetime.

It's only when you love him that you hate him.

He might have been a thief and a liar and a cheat, but he was a good person.

Sein halbes Leben hatte Gerhard an dem Widerspruch zwischen Denken und Handeln gelitten. Er hatte sich als Intellektueller gefühlt und versucht, darin eine Auszeichnung zu sehen, die für andauerndes Scheitern entschädigte. Insgeheim war ihm schon lange klar gewesen, dass der Satz "Der Klügere gibt nach" eine Falle darstellte und dass es sich beim Zusatz "bis er der Dumme ist" nicht um einen Witz, sondern um eine logische Konsequenz handelte.

the argument goes, the same thing can't be thus affected in opposing ways at the same time, so it must be that it is not the person as a whole who is in this contradictory state, but different parts of him which do the pulling in opposite directions.

to contradict him. "You know how she is

contrario. Amelia comenzó a llorar.

y ese "hombre bueno" del que hablan no lo he visto por ninguna parte. Pero quizá es que la naturaleza del ser humano es la que es y por tanto he visto a algunos de esos "hombres buenos" haciendo cosas tan horribles como las de los hombres a los que combaten.

And then there was Kate Sheffield. The bane of his existence. And the object of his desires. All at once.

What is there not to like about cupids?" "You don't find them rather dangerous?" "Chubby little babies?" "Carrying deadly weapons.

There was little less appealing than being decisively contradicted while one was trying to make a grand point.

Demostrar que algo no era correcto no significaba que lo opuesto lo fuera.

Proving something right wasn't the same as proving the opposite wrong.

You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

Coconut is one of those love-hate ingredients.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

People think that I am very innocent and elegant, but I am the complete opposite of that.

I wanted to make an artwork that really underlined the contradiction between how machines see and how humans see. Because music is so affective and is just as corporeal as it is cerebral, I thought coupling a music performance with machine vision adds up to something that work on an emotional, aesthetic, and intellectual level.