Quotes About Contradiction

Claro que te dejo. No faltaba más." Pero faltaba. Cómo no que faltaba.

Es curioso como a veces se puede llegar a ser tan inocentemente cruel.

Like most womanisers, he affected to like women, and yet he despised and hated them all. And

But any idea of plainness is simply contrary to the fancy color that is red.

It's perfectly possible to love Paris while detesting the French,

He was young, no older than fifteen, pale and dark-haired, wearing jeans and a soft white T-shirt that had SHAKESPEARE HATES YOUR EMO POEMS written across the chest.

Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?

Don't walk away at the first sign of a contradiction or a problem. Sometimes scientific study needs to play catch-up to the Bible.

We are creature of darkness and light, capable of barbarism and limitless cruelty, and also love, and laughter and the creation of the most sublime beauty. We are both these things, clearly, but which are we more of?

We were ordered to war but not allowed to win the war. We were ordered to kill but court-martialed for killing. We were ordered to defeat Communism in Southeast Asia only to see Communism win at home.

We take a beautiful little boy and we put him in a diaper and we give him a lethal weapon and we say LOVE. Which makes absolutely no sense.

To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive in mathematics requires a kind of vitality that cannot be described in purely logical terms.

The founding fathers, whose infinite wisdom gave us a Constitution and form of government well nigh perfect, located the seat of that government in a stinking, steaming swamp.

Freedom is just another word for wretchedness.

Our existence, and its attendant neurosis, is defined by a seemingly irresolvable contradiction: that we are outside of nature, beyond it and above it like minor deities, and yet always helplessly within it, forever defined and circumscribed by its blind and implacable authority.

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.

Whereas incongruity is the clash of incompatible ideas or perceptions, ambivalence is the simultaneous presence of conflicting emotions, such

every time men try to grasp something consolingly, sturdily, essentially masculine, it all too easily transforms into its opposite.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.