Quotes About Contradiction

Yet he opposed the introduction

Yo, múltiple, como en contradicción

Life always refused simplicity.

You realize how sympathy and antagonism can coexist. You are discovering how many seemingly incompatible emotions can thrive, side by side, in the same human heart.

In love, everything is both true and false; it's the one subject on which it's impossible to say anything absurd.

Theories were clean and convincing and comprehensible. Life was messy and full of nonsense.

There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine.

The law, and society, and religion all said it was impossible to be sane, healthy, and kill yourself.

Had he been naive, or overambitious? Both, probably. In life, you might be a bohemian and an adventurer, but you also sought a pattern, an arrangement to help you through, even if -- even as -- you kicked against it.

If asked in a court of law what happened and what was said, I could only attest to the words "heading," "stagnating" and "peaceable." I'd never thought of myself as peaceable—or its opposite—until then. I would also swear to the truth of the biscuit tin; it was burgundy red, with the Queen's smiling profile on it.

This is where we work, in the interstices of ignorance, the land of contradiction and silence, planning to convince you with the seemingly known, to resolve - or make usefully vivid - the contradiction, and to make the silence eloquent.

We were essentially taking the piss, except when we were serious. He was essentially serious, except when he was taking the piss. It took us a while to work this out.

You realise how sympathy and antagonism can coexist.

pustular berk with the charisma of a plimsole

And in your opinion, the notion that everything works out in the end, and the counter-notion that nothing ever does, are both equally banal.

A fi rus însemna a fi pesimist; a fi sovietic însemna a fi optimist. De aceea cuvintele <> erau o contradicÈ›ie de termeni. Puterea nu înÈ›elesese niciodat? acest lucru. Ea credea c? dac? ucideai o bun? parte a populaÈ›iei, iar pentru restul instaurai un regim de propagand? È™i teroare, obÈ›ineai optimism.

She charmed and sparkled and said witty things, but she knew very well she was being charming and sparkling and witty while she was doing it, which somehow felt wrong.

Christina was so feminine, so dainty, so damned innocent-looking … and she wore a knife strapped to her leg.

Her kind will tell you there is no black and white, only shadows. That any way can be wrong or right, that good and evil are two sides of the same coin. Believe her if you will. Perhaps she tells the truth

When one is advised that something is black and white at the same time, it would be better to have no advice at all.

I wanted to get close to you, and at the same time to stay away from you. I wanted to know you, and at the same time I resisted that knowing. I wanted to look at you and at the same time felt ashamed to look. My state of suspension was such that the crevice between us grew deeper and deeper...

Descartes's argument turns out to be a reworking of Anselm's Ontological Proof. When we doubt, the limitations and finite nature of the ego are revealed. Yet we could not arrive at the idea of "imperfection" if we did not have a prior conception of "perfection." Like Anselm, Descartes concluded that a perfection that did not exist would be a contradiction in terms.

La vida no es siempre logica

Humans have a wonderful saying for everything and then proceed to ignore the wisdom in all of them.