Quotes About Contradiction

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum.

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

the paradox is one of our most valued spiritual possessions...

If the God is absolute beauty and goodness, how should he encompass the fullness of life, which is beautiful and hateful, good and evil, laughable and serious, human and inhuman? How can man live in the womb of the God if the Godhead himself attends only to one-half of him?

Every creative person is a duality or a synthesis of contradictory aptitudes. On the one side he is a human being with a personal life, while on the other side he is an impersonal, creative process.

opposites, no judgment can be considered to be final

Eine große Wahrheit ist eine Wahrheit, deren Gegenteil immer noch eine Wahrheit ist." ---- "La verdad suprema es una y la misma con lo contrario al sentido.

La verdad suprema es una y la misma con lo contrario al sentido.

O mais interessante em tia Violeta é que ela não tinha um canteiro de violetas.

Of course, the defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people

We revel in men like Beecham, Moore—they are the easy repositories of all that is dark in our very social world. But the things that helped make Beecham what he was? Those, we tolerate. Those, we even enjoy…

the defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people

One thing I have noticed, child, is that tyrants are the grandest romantics. They can burn a heretic alive once day, and compose a love sonnet the next.

I'm not sure I agree with everything he says; but then I'm not sure I agree with everything I say.

Where he makes a jest, a problem lies concealed.

La naturaleza no sólo es armónica, sino terriblemente contradictoria y caótica

we recognize all things by the existence of their opposite—day as distinguishable from night, failure from success, peace from war." We could add "safety from hazard." When

Every child starts out loving animals, identifying with them. But early on, adults start sending them contradictory messages. They'll give a kid a stuffed animal to hug and love and sleep with. But at the same time, they're serving them animals for dinner every night. It's crazy, if you think about it. But when you're young, you just accept what grown-ups tell you as the truth.

Love is written in our instincts, yet erased by our actions.

So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

A truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

Either way you win. And either way you lose. What can I tell you? Love's a bitch.

Sickness leading to healing. The truth and its opposite again