Quotes About Contradiction

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?

I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

How could someone so cool, so different be such a cliche when it came to love?

My technique is don't believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

Noses run. Feet smell.

The romantic love story is a paradoxical fusion of two extraordinarily potent messages. The first is that love, deep connection, is the most important, indeed the only truly important matter in the world. And the second is that true love cannot exist in this world.

I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love.

A flower's appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.

Sometimes I feel like I'm going nowhere, in opposite directions.

She should have been used to disappointment by now, but pessimism wasn't normally her bag. Lisa would say Sami was a discouraged optimist. An oxymoron for sure.

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

I had mixed feelings, like watching your Mother in Law drive over a cliff in your car.

It is certain because it is impossible

In church, does it ever seem to you a kind of game? Hypocritical. Be humble, they say, yet people come in their best clothes. Give penance, yet as they close their eyes and kneel, they compare who is better dressed, the beauty of someone else's wife, the sway of her hips, they think of anything but prayers.

How can a river that rises in a black forest and discharges in a black sea be celebrated as blue?

ALL FORCES WITHIN NATURE ARE ESSENTIALLY NEUTRAL. THEY MANIFEST EITHER POSITIVELY OR NEGATIVELY DEPENDING UPON THE INTENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL. IT IS THE MISINTERPRETATION OF THIS FACT THAT HAS GIVEN RISE TO THE ERRONEOUS CONCEPT OF FREE WILL. WARRIORS DO NOT HAVE FREE WILL; FOR THEM THERE IS ONLY THE CHOICE TO ACT IMPECCABLY OR UNIMPECCABLY. TO ACT UNIMPECCABLY IS FOR WARRIORS NOT A CHOICE WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION; THEREFORE FREE WILL IS A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS.

There's a problem out of every solution and a solution out of every problem

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.