Quotes About Contradiction

Flying is simple; just throw yourself on the ground and miss.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself

Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't

Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most altruistic nose in a steaming pile of "F**k that".

Life is a contradiction at times - as are we.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix

Every time I say I'm not tired, I end up being tired.

Actually to recognise someone, more still, to identify him you have been unable to recognise, is to think two contradictory things under a single denomination, it is the same as saying that he who was here, the being we recall, is here no longer and that he who is here is one we never knew, that means piercing a mystery almost as troubling as that of death of which it is indeed the preface and the herald.

For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognised in a few years' time. So that to believe in medicine would be the height of folly, if not to believe in it were not greater folly still, for from this mass of errors there have emerged in the course of time many truths.

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they that engendered those beliefs, so they are powerless to destroy them; they can aim at them continual blows of contradiction and disproof without weakening them;

Il n'y a pas une idée qui ne porte en elle sa réfutation possible, un mot, le mot contraire.

Pois como a medicina é um compêndio dos erros sucessivos e contraditórios dos médicos, recorrendo aos melhores destes, corre-se o risco de solicitar uma verdade que será reconhecida falsa alguns anos mais tarde. De modo que acreditar na medicina seria a suprema loucura se não acreditar nela não fosse loucura maior, pois desse amontoado de erros se desvencilharam com o tempo algumas verdades.

and helped me better understand what a contradiction it is to search in reality for memory's pictures, which would never have the charm that comes to them from memory itself and from not being perceived by the senses.

For the very ones who are right, like Françoise, have also to be wrong, so that Justice becomes an impossibility

As much as I bad-mouth people in general and think the worst of them, I'm secretly waiting for them to surprise me. Try as I might, I haven't been able to give up on them wholly. Even though they are nine and nine-tenths dirt, now and again they are capable of something angelic. I can't say that it restores my faith, because I really had none in the first place, but when it happens it does confuse you.

Human beings are rat-cunning and will happily kill you twice over for a hot meal. That's what long observation has taught me. On the other hand, with a full belly, and a good harvest in the barn, and a fire in the hearth, there's nothing so charming, so generous, no one more decent than a well-fed man. But

Besides, we shall want employments for our senses, and subjects for arguments; for were there nothing but truth, and no falsehood, there would be no occasion for to dispute, and by this means we should want the aim and pleasure of our endeavours in confuting and contradicting each other; neither would one man be thought wiser than another, but all would either be alike knowing and wise, or all would be fools...

I have so much hate that it has turned into love.

La vita, credimi, non è un fascio di speranze perdute, un puzzolente ricamo di mimose, la vita raglia e cavalca nel suo incessante splendore.

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He arrives carrying a forest, and you said he walks his cat on a leash, and he's the one assessing other people's mental health?

Rayne, why is it you feel the need to argue with every single thing I say?" "Because every single thing you say is usually stupid and ridiculous.

I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.