Quotes About Contradiction

To be is the greatest paradox of life facing death.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

Stage-plays also carried me away, full of images of my miseries, and of fuel to my fire. Why is it, that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would no means suffer? yet he desires as a spectator to feel sorrow at them, and this very sorrow is his pleasure. What is this but a miserable madness?

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

Well, she can't have it both ways, can she? Just like a woman to want it, though.

We hang between two seemingly irreconcilable facts / the capacity to Sing and the inevitability of Death.

This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

You know, it's a peculiar thing. At funerals one's inclined to laugh; and at weddings, weep.

Querer jugar contra uno mismo representa, en definitiva, una paradoja tan grande como querer saltar sobre la propia sombra

playing chess against oneself is thus as paradoxical as jumping over one's own shadow.

Mais il suffit d'une seconde pour faire comprendre que, le hasard n'y ayant aucune part, c'est une absurdité de vouloir jouer contre soi-même. L'attrait du jeu d'échecs réside tout entier en ceci que deux cerveaux s'y affrontent, chacun avec sa tactique […] vouloir jouer aux échecs contre soi-même est donc aussi paradoxal que vouloir marcher sur son ombre.

setting out to play against oneself in chess represents therefore the same sort of paradox as a man jumping over his own shadow.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

Nothing can be predicted. Nobody can give a reason why something happened in this way and not in another. Stronger than all predictions are coincidence and contradiction.' John

There are a lot of things in the world that are unexplainable - love at first sight, vegetable pizza, and potpourri, for instance. But I doubt your ex's murder is one of them.

Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty

We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.

A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.