Quotes About Contradiction

You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college

I am at two with nature.

It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction.

I don't know what the hell I was thinking; I hated nature, and more than nature I hated being a car owner.

Her preference was to go by pistol shot, mine by placing my head in the dishwasher and pressing Full Cycle.

No es acaso el amor una asombrosa, y a veces milagrosa, conjunción de patrañas? ¿No es exacto que menos por menos da más?

You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it won't be for long.

It was Richard Parker who calmed me down. It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness.

They were like curmudgeonly old friends who would never admit that they liked me yet came round to see me all the time. The

Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.

What nourishes me, destroys me

The ancient Greeks loved that little interlocking contradiction, the idea that you're only your strongest when you have a weakness for other people. They saw

What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he wanders he yearns to have a home. And yet how bestial is content—all the great things in life are done by discontented people.

Il mondo ha stampato libri per 450 anni, eppure la polvere da sparo ha tuttora una più larga diffusione. Non importa! L'inchiostro da stampa è il più grande esplosivo: vincerà.

Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.

Life was hard. Life was good. Most folks think this a contradiction, but I have learned that the hardest, most difficult times of my life caused the most growth in my character.

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

Pirates having a tea party? Not possible.

Imperial children are necessary, but they're not exactly wanted. In

Alle standpunten toelaten, de meest verschillende overtuigingen, de meest tegenstrijdige meningen, veronderstelt een algemene toestand van vermoeidheid en onvruchtbaarheid. Daardoor komt dit wonder tot stand: de tegenstanders leven samen - maar juist omdat zij geen tegenstanders meer kunnen zijn; [...] Een religie dooft uit wanneer zij waarheden tolereert die haar uitsluiten; en de god in wiens naam men niet meer moord is beslist dood.