Quotes About Contradiction

And I am ashamed to write here that I felt more alive than ever, even though my heart was broken glass in my chest.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

Every wall has two reasons for existing.

In Atlanta at one o'clock on a Thursday morning I would have had downtown to myself, but Seattle's center flickered with flashes of restless, contradictory life.

Wir wollen hier auf Erden schon das Himmelreich errichten'. Aber welches denn Heine? Das sozialistische Paradies, von dem sie in der Konsumgesellschaft träumen, oder die Konsumgesellschaft, von der sie im sozialistischen Paradies träumen?

Whoever does not understand that two perfectly contrary attitudes can both be perfectly justified ought not to engage in criticism.

Propose solutions? As if the world were not drowning in solutions!

The fool is scandalized and laughs when he notices that philosophers contradict each other. It is difficult to make the fool understand that philosophy is precisely that: the art of contradicting each other without canceling each other out.

Heinrich Heine: "Wir wollen hier auf Erden schon das Himmelreich errichten." Aber welches denn, Heine? Das sozialistische Paradies, von dem sie in der Konsumgesellschaft träumen, oder die Konsumgesellschaft, von der sie im sozialistischen Paradies träumen.

Heinrich Heine: "We want to establish the kingdom of heaven here on earth." But which one, Heine? The socialist paradise they dream of in consumer society, or the consumer society they dream of in socialist paradise. — Nicolás Gómez Dávila.

Heinrich Heine: "We want to establish the kingdom of heaven here on earth." But which one, Heine? The socialist paradise they dream of in consumer society, or the consumer society they dream of in socialist paradise.

The standard-bearers of liberty celebrated by the 19th century ended up as the vanguard of industrial despotism.

To avenge Nietzsche's attacks on his disciples, Christ ironically prepared to create the Nietzscheans.

Relativism is the solution of one who is incapable of putting things in order. Truths do not contradict each other except when they fall out of order.

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.

We ought to be able to combine opposites: the love of goodness with indifference to other people's opinions, a liking for work with indifference to fame, concern for our health with indifference to life.

Yet the voice could take fright . This Kathy Kerouac foresaw only too well when syllables suddenly started coming out of her mouth like little fragments of oblivion giving her the impression she was contradicting herself. It was in these moments, when words were both true and false, solemn and light, on the tip of her tongue and deep in the throat, that space shrank in her mouth like a hard-felt blow.

Don't be beautiful, you irritating creature.

The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.

The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.