Quotes About Contradiction

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.

The challenge with Donald Trump is that he'll deny things he said the day before or even in the same interview. And then sometimes when you try and talk about a fact that he misstated or something that he said out loud that he now disagrees with himself on, it's very frustrating.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

The point of art is to show people that life is worth living by showing that it isn't

during the Asian financial crisis the United States and other Western countries demanded that the Asians take three steps--let bad banks fail, keep spending under control, and keep interest rates high. In it own crisis, the West did exactly the opposite on all three fronts.

Y la vida no es noble, ni buena, ni sagrada.

Everything you say,' Geno said rather irritably, 'contradicts itself.' 'Of course it does,' the screech owl rejoined obscurely. 'Otherwise, how would anyone ever keep to the middle of the road?

I'm almost never serious, and I'm always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold-hearted. I'm like a collection of paradoxes.

En un país donde puede pasar TODO, no pasa NADA.

Todo en la vejez es impropio: matar, reírse, el sexo, y sobre todo seguir viviendo.

Me da lo mismo el amor que el odio. Y no me exijan verdad que la verdad es inestable, escurridiza, avasiva. una quimera con cola de humo

Como el impuesto de guerra lo que nos resultó fue el impuesto de la derrota, ahora estrenamos gobierno con el impuesto de la paz. ¿La paz un impuesto? O sea, como quien dice, que aquí pagamos porque estamos vivos y pagamos porque estamos muertos.

Vaig entendre que només som la part insignificant d'una cadena de paradoxes. ¿O potser no és una paradoxa que allò que en diuen amor sovint acaba sent un desacord entre infeliços?

The 'wrong thing' happened, we are now told, during the 'dark flush of night' (527.07). A flush usually brings colour to cheeks, so a dark flush is a mild oxymoron, like a dark light, and is all the more suggestive, since the dark flush of night is probably an erotically charged flush.

A clear Brunian 'coincidence of contraries' has surfaced again, for to be happy when miserable translates Bruno's paradoxical motto which preceded his play Candelaio: 'In tristitia hilaris: in hilaritate tristis'—in sad- ness, happiness and in happiness, sadness.

He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery...

You can't have protectionism within a free trade agreement. It's an oxymoron."

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

A veces lo que parece odio es sólo un profundo amor muy contrariado.