Quotes About Contradiction

Cum e posibil s? fie mai uÈ™or de vorbit cu un str?in (...), È™i acesta e f?r? îndoial? paradoxul cel mai frecvent È™i mai revolt?tor al vieÈ›ii în doi, c? ne apropiem ca s? ne dep?rt?m.

Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.

Hurston embodied a more or less harmonious but nevertheless problematic unity of opposites.

Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.

I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.

One person who was interesting was Jello Biafra, who was - of all things - very professional!

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on the other side.

ironia este însu?irea fundamental? a providen?ei

Su genio triunfaría tarde o temprano, como el de tantos otros, sus predecesores que se habían impuesto a la sociedad; ¡entonces le amarían las mujeres! El ejemplo de Napoléon, tan fatal para el siglo XIX por las pretensiones que inspira a tanta gente mediocre , se apareció ante Lucien, quien lanzó sus cálculos al viento reprochándose haberlos hecho. Así estaba hecho Lucien, iba del bien al mal y del mal al bien con la misma facilidad.

Who is she? Did you know her young? What of her birth? Had she father and mother, or was she born of the conjunction of ice and sun? She burns and yet she freeze; she shows herself and then withdraws; she attracts me and repulses me; she brings me life, she gives me death; I love her and yet I hate her! I cannot live thus; let me be wholly in heaven or in hell!

Geronimo [is]...an example of our practice of destroying those who oppose us and then honoring them.

When I kissed her, I felt that my heart would tear through my chest for excitement and wonder, and then I felt a good, empty sicknesss, if you can speak of anything in such contradictory terms.

Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic. Thus there have ever been, and will ever be, men who, after having submitted some portion of their religious belief to the principle of authority, will seek to exempt several other parts of their faith from its influence, and to keep their minds floating at random between liberty and obedience.

I was working on the principle, you see, that the more obvious you are, the less obvious you are.

Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.

Another basic contradiction of the capitalist system of control is that it cannot separate "advance" from destruction, nor "progress

Something about him made her watch him, his big hands held out to receive the falling drops, alms of heaven, catching them in his mouth, smiling as they streamed down his face, his chin, his cheeks. Her heart sent her one way. Her feet sent her another

At the smallest levels, the universe operates according to very different rules from those of the sensual world. There are contradictions and impossibilities, paradoxes and strangenesses, a Lewis Carroll logic; yet this is the most accurate description of how reality works.

Thomas Lull knows he is un-American: he hates cars but loves trains, Indian trains, big trains like a nation on the move. He is content with the contradiction that they are at once hierarchical and democratic, a temporary community brought together for a time; vital while it lasts, burning away like early mist when the terminus is reached.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature—a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man. Winwood Reade (1872)

How about it, an Iceberg with a warm heart?

Honey in the mouth, Dagger in the stomach

Denial and affirmation are games which people play. There are people who deny that they are capable of denying, and who would insist that people do not insist.