Quotes About Contradiction

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

something which is absurd or logically contradictory, but which appears at first glance to be the result of sound reasoning.

Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She might believe herself wholly in revolt against it; but what had charmed her in it would still charm her even though it were against her will.

Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative. She wanted to surprise every one by her dash and originality, but she could not help modelling herself on the last person she met.

You gave me my first glimpse of a real life, and at the same moment you asked me to go on with a sham one. It's beyond human enduring--that's all.

I find everything boring, therefore I'm fascinating.

She had brushed her teeth before vomiting as well, never able to utterly crush the optimistic streak in her nature.

There's a blast of palpable stupidity that comes from our host, like opening the door of a sauna. The best way to contradict him is to let him speak.

Patrick had a fervent desire to be left alone matched only by his fervent desire not to be left alone.

humility was the ultimate arrogance

For smart monkeys, we can, when the mood takes us, be exceedingly stupid.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

What is a rebel A man who says no.

I love Humanity but I hate humans

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

I don't always feel what I know I should feel. My thought crosses the river I swim very slowly Because the suit men made it wear weighs it down.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

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

Quiero estudiar, quiero aprender, quiero escribir. Tengo veintidós años. No sé nada. Nada fundamental. No sé lo que debería haber aprendido hace muchos años. Nadie me enseñó nada. Sé, en cambio, lo que debería saber mucho después. De allí que me sienta anciana y niña al mismo tiempo.

rechazo a la inversa. Acepto para destruir. Digo sí para acentuar mi negación tácita.

Cómo querer odiar a quien no te ama. Sórdido deseo, el más desenfrenado, el imposible de renunciar. Querer negar a quien no te ama, no te cubre, no te ampara quien no te protege. —¿Qué decirte sino que no puedo? No poder hablar es un acto difícil de contar con palabras. Por eso no se lo dije.

Piensas una cosa deseas otra amas otra haces otra cosa

Sexuality and sexual difference are absolutely, and irreducibly, linked to the signifying order, yet this does not mean that sexual difference is a symbolic construction. Sex is real because it marks an irreducible limit (contradiction) of the signifying order (and not something beyond or outside this order).

Minus one/plus enjoyment—this is the necessarily distorted structural topology where the subject of the unconscious dwells. This subject is never neuter; it is sexed, since sex(uality) is nothing but a configuring of the signifying minus and of the surplus-enjoyment: a configuring which cannot escape contradiction, the latter being the logical consequence of the one (the Other) that is not there.