Quotes About Contradiction

Love is a sin...!!!

My heart is schizophrenic.

Love is the opposite of good sense.

The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day.

But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it.

His love was a poison: soft and loveable, hideous yet touchable.

You may see at one and the same time both your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror.

The person you are the most afraid to contradict is yourself.

Some people are only funny when they try to be serious.

One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of millions of white swans. All you need is one single (and, I am told, quite ugly) black bird.*

Some people do not know their own interest—just consider addicts, workaholics, people trapped in a bad relationship, people who support large government, the press, book reviewers, or respectable bureaucrats, all of whom for some mysterious reason act against their own interest.

It is the appearance of inconsistency, and not its absence, that makes people attractive.

From such examples, I derived the rule that what is called "healthy" is generally unhealthy, just as "social" networks are antisocial, and the "knowledge"-based economy is typically ignorant.

Self-contradiction is made culturally to be shameful, a matter that can prove disastrous in science.

So I end this section with a thought. It is quite perplexing that those from whom we have benefited the most aren't those who have tried to help us (say with "advice") but rather those who have actively tried—but eventually failed—to harm us.

this approach is exactly backward:

It is quite perplexing that those from whom we have benefited the most aren't those who have tried to help us (say with "advice") but rather those who have actively tried—but eventually failed—to harm us.

One should give more weight to research that, while being rigorous, contradicts other peers, particularly if it entails costs and reputational harm for its author. Further, Someone with a high public presence who is controversial and takes risks for his opinion is less likely to be a bull***t vendor.*4

What the French call "the caviar left," la gauche caviar, or what Anglo-Saxons call champagne socialists, are people who advocate socialism, sometimes even communism, or some political system with sumptuary limitations, while overtly leading a lavish lifestyle, often financed by inheritance—not realizing the contradiction that they want others to avoid just such a lifestyle. It is not too different from the womanizing popes, such as John XII, or the Borgias.

One should give more weight to research that, while being rigorous, contradicts other peers, particularly if it entails costs and reputational harm for its author. Further, Someone with a high public presence who is controversial and takes risks for his opinion is less likely to be a bull***t vendor.

is the exact contrary of knowledge; one should learn to avoid using terms made for knowledge to describe its opposite.

what is called "healthy" is generally unhealthy, just as "social" networks are antisocial, and the "knowledge"-based economy is typically ignorant.

you can practice your freedom of religion so long as you allow me to practice mine; you have the right to contradict me so long as I have the right to contradict you.

Things are not as simple as that. We