Quotes About Contradiction

We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.

IT'S funny. It doesn't work the other way round !

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.

I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

Some people are the greatest people on Earth with good hearts and will get in the studio and make the most negative music in the world for the sake of success. That's what the music business does to you. That's what capitalism does to you.

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

My style says, 'Look at me, don't look at me.'

As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

Bangkok is infamously mired in lurid contradiction, but it's also a city of subtle and distorted moods that journalism and film have hitherto mostly failed to capture.

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

Whatever is true is true, but not all truths are necessary truths. It is true that adding two pebbles to two pebbles makes four pebbles; but adding two drops of water to two drops can make one pool (Piaget, 1967d, p. 582). What this means is that the action of adding actual objects together can have alternative outcomes; the sum of adding two and two can be other than four – that is a real possibility, and no contradiction arises from this.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Ich beklage mich bitter darüber, dass Liebe und Hass so dicht beieinander liegen. Ach, ich beklage es, dass man nie wirklich weiß, ob man gehasst oder geliebt wird

Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools

By saying not to worry he says something worrisome.

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.

Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate.