Quotes About Contradiction

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice.

Aliudque cupido, mens aliud suadet: video meliora proboque,deteriora sequor!

I could not but feel that it was ironical that the old relative should have spoken disparagingly of fawns as a class, sneering at their timidity in that rather lofty and superior manner, for he himself could have walked straight into a gathering of these animals and no questions asked.

Sing,' said the agent. 'Stop singing,' added the agent, hastily.

I love you only because it's you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

You must know that I do not love and that I love you, because everything alive has its two sides; a word is one wing of silence, fire has its cold half. I love you in order to begin to love you, to start infinity again and never to stop loving you: that's why I do not love you yet. I love you, and I do not love you, as if I held keys in my hand: to a future of joy- a wretched, muddled fate- My love has two lives, in order to love you. -Sonnet XLIV

When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.

My love has two lifetimes to love you. That's how I can love you when I don't, and still love you when I do.

I do not love you except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, From waiting to not waiting for you My heart moves from cold to fire.

Sabrás que no te amo y que te amo puesto que de dos modos es la vida, la palabra es un ala de silencio, el fuego tiene una mitad de frío. Yo te amo para comenzar a amarte, para recomenzar el infinito y para no dejar de amarte nunca: por eso no te amo todavía. Te amo y no te amo como si tuviera en mis manos las llaves de la dicha y un incierto destino desdichado. Mi amor tiene dos vidas para amarte. Por eso te amo cuando no te amo y por eso te amo cuando te amo.

You should know that I don't love you and that I love you.

I am the one without hope, the word without echoes, he who lost everything and he who had everything.

I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.

You can go back time and time again to the shoe store, but it will never sell milk.

Rivers thought how misleading it was to say that the war had 'matured' these young men. It wasn't true of his patients, and it certainly wasn't true of Burns, in whom a prematurely aged man and a fossilized schoolboy seemed to exist side by side. It did give him a curiously ageless quality, but 'maturity' was hardly the word.

There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not help.

They were remarkable in so many ways that the gifts they bestowed almost equaled the havoc they so thoughtlessly wreaked.

Life cannot be known by the "mind," its secrets cannot be learned through the "mind." The proof is, the ceaseless strife and contradiction of opinion among those who trust in the mind. Much less can the "mind" know itself, the more so, because it is pervaded by the illusion that it truly knows, truly is.

One can be deeply influenced by people to whom one is utterly hostile

People, feelings, everything! Double! Two people in each person. There's also a person exactly the opposite of you, like the unseen part of you, somewhere in the world, and he waits in ambush.

I don't want you to think that I'm so good as you put it. I have a little evil side, too. I just keep it well hidden. - Victor Van Allen

It should be the other way around.

I'm a hypocrite and a slut and I'll change my mind tomorrow.