Quotes About Contradiction

i find nothing more depressing than optimism.

Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected.

No one is good; no one is evil; everyone is both, in the same way and in different ways. It would be needless to point this out if the unscrupulous were not always saying the opposite. It's so small a thing, the life of man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of the common task. I wish to love, and I cannot. I wish not to love, and I cannot.

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

The conclusion is that the original assumption of ordering leads us into contradiction, and so that assumption must be false.

he said "Miami" left the impression of Sodom-by-the-Sea.

True stories are full of holes. Life isn't a smooth freeway across a fruited plain. Life is a winding, pot-holed road, slick with oil, and studded with broken glass. It was one of Steve's laws. If a witness' testimony is too damn good, if there are no loose ends or contradictions, chances are his story is as phony as Donald Trump's hair.

There are chickens, there are eggs, there are deaf girls singing karaoke. Nothing makes sense anymore.

It is not Christianity as a whole, but Calvinist Protestantism whose attitude towards nature contradicts almost completely the Buddhist attitude.

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity

One foot in the door, the other one in the gutter; The sweet smell that they adore, I think I'd rather smother

After having much praised or much blamed anybody, one is generally sensible of something just the reverse soon afterwards.

Love is a beautiful liar? Beauty was a liar too.

Love Contains Both "Yes" And "No

It had been about as fun as a fun run, an oxymoron if she had ever heard one, with heavy emphasis on the moron part.

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

A consciência é essa misteriosa e contraditória capacidade que tem o homem de distanciar-se das coisas para fazê-las presentes, imediatamente presentes.

E que, quase sempre, num primeiro momento deste descobrimento, os oprimidos, em vez de buscar a libertação na luta e por ela, tendem a ser opressores também, ou subopressores. A estrutura do seu pensar se encontra condicionada pela contradição vivida na situação concreta, existencial, em que se "formam".

Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time

And he says that everything, absolutely everything, is a question of aesthetics and color. That people aren't really unhappy with you or your government. That the problem is the gray color of your uniforms, such a depressing color, so dull, and it doesn't go with anything. Do you realize that the only color it goes with is red, it's the only way to dress it up, make it look good? What a contradiction.

No soy peronista, pero a veces por dentro, con cara de póquer, uno grita Viva Perón.)