Quotes About Contradiction

nel pessimista si accordano una bontà inefficace e una cattiveria inappagata

I have followed only one idea all the way--the idea that everything man achieves necessarily turns against him.

Neither one of us talks, the way people sometimes don't when they are happy – but as soon as I have this thought, I realise its opposite is also true.

iki insan hayat?n herhangi bir an?nda bir ?eyi nadiren ayn? anda ister. Bazen insan olman?n en zor yan? budur.

And Derek was... what? A pair of dark eyes that hid more than they revealed and some broad shoulders and a mouth that could be cold and thin and then suddenly widen into a generous grin just when you thought such a thing was impossible.

Pero cada vez la odiaba más porque no podía amarla

Because the best phrase and always still the youngest, was: goodness makes me want to be sick. Goodness was lukewarm and light. It smelled of raw meat kept for too long. Without entirely rotting in spite of everything. It was freshened up from time to time, seasoned a little, enough to keep it a piece of lukewarm, quiet meat.

Madness borders the cruelest good sense.

I wanted to go with him, to be on the stronger side, for him to spare me, like one who seeks shelter in the arms of the enemy to stay far from his arrows. It was different than love, I was finding out: I wanted him as a thirsty person desires water, without feelings, without even wanting to be happy

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

I hate travelling and explorers. Yet here I am proposing to tell the story of my expeditions.

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

The murkiness as we exist alongside each other calls us forward. I don't want to forget that I am here; at any given moment we are, each of us, next to any other capable of both the best and the worst our democracy has to offer.

El desencanto es un oxímoron, una contradicción que el intelecto no puede resolver y que sólo la poesía puede expresar y custodiar

We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today....

Aspasia and Xantippe in one. I

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one

People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.

What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.