Quotes About Contradiction

The "laughter through tears of sorrow" that Pushkin noted elsewhere in his work is precisely laughter. The images it produces are too deeply ambiguous to bear any social message.

What a strange creature man is! He does not believe in God, but he does believe that if the bridge of is nose itches he is surely going to die;

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all:

De que modo estranho e incompreensível o destino brinca connosco! Será que alguma vez alcançamos aquilo que almejamos? Será que conseguimos aquilo que, parece, as nossas forças foram expressamente preparadas? Tudo se passa ao contrário.

irony without humor is violence.

Aside from the fact that she's a horrible human being, she's actually very nice." Rebecca

any specific teaching that contradicts a teaching of the Bible is false.

Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation…

Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug

Den Satz des Widerspruchs zu vernichten ist vielleicht die höchste Aufgabe der höheren Logik

?çimin mevsimlerine de hiç uymaz ?u tabiat.

Çünkü romantikler göbekliolamazlar: yasakt?r. Ben sana gösteririm. Limonata-pasta-komparsita dü?ünü yaparak evlendin; bir önceki unutulmaz a?k?n?n elemini bir sonraki k?z?n kollar?nda unuttun ve Allah kahretsin, belki de bu kelimelerle anlatt?n durumunu k?za evlenme teklif ederken.

Oysa bizim bütün güzelli?imiz, ya?ad?klar?m?zla dü?ündüklerimiz aras?ndaki ac?kl? çeli?kinin yans?malar?ndan ibaretti.

Çeli?kili duyarl?klara ayn? anda yer veren insan?n iç dünyas? çok ba?kayd?. Bir Bach sonat?yla bir Beethoven senfonisinin yanyana çal?nmas? onun yan?nda bir ?ey ifade etmiyordu.

Ars?z çiçekler yeti?tiriyorum.Tenekeler dü?mesin diye pencerenin iki kasas? aras?na ç?talar çakt?m.Daha çirkin oldu görünü?leri.Çiçeklerle birlikte her soluk al???m?zda havay? kirletiyoruz..

?nsan yap?s?ndaki çeli?kiler, onun ne ölüme ne de sonsuzlu?a bir türlü dayanamad???n? gösteriyor. Sonsuzluk da ölüm kadar ürkütücü bir gerçektir.

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.

I desire her and I hate her. I would like to take her in my arms and embrace her till she smothered, till she was crushed and I could drink death from her gushing veins.

You are horror and beauty in rare combination.

Your body said one thing. Your words said another." It moved a sensory arm to the back of his neck, looping one coil loosely around his neck. "This is the position," it said. "I'll stop now if you like.

The Human Contradiction held them. Intelligence at the service of hierarchical behavior. They were not free.

I was always a doubter when it came to religion. How irrational of me, then, to love a zealot. But then, both love and zealotry are irrational states of mind.

Così funziona. Quel Dio dell'Antico Testamento non contraddice il mondo in cui sono le cose adesso, ma assomiglia parecchio a Zeus. Sembra un uomo potentissimo che gioca con i suoi giocattoli come fanno i miei fratelli minori con i loro soldatini. Bang, Bang! Sette giocattoli cadono morti.

They consider it a sin to take any life, yet they kill and kill.