Quotes About Contradiction

Who can be wise, amaz'd, temperate and furious,Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

She speaks, yet she says nothing.

We would, and we would not.

Very tragical mirth.

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

It is all right to be simply the way you have to be, among contradictory ridges in some crescendo of knowing.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.

Das ist ja beim Menschen ein interessanter Widerspruch. Den Mut bewundert man, aber die Blödheit bewundert man nicht, obwohl es doch dasselbe ist.

Ich kann nicht beten:"laß mir sie!"und doch kommt sie mir oft als die Meine vor. Ich kann nicht beten:"gib mir sie!"denn sie ist eines andern. Ich witzle mich mit meinen Schmerzen herum; wenn ich mir's nachließe, es gäbe eine ganze Litanei von Antithesen.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness -- I hope you're getting this down.

Well, freedom is wonderful. On the other hand, if you're dead, it's a tremendous drawback to your sex life.

To you I'm an atheist to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.

I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

Te ríes cuando deberías horrorizarte. Te enamoras de mí cuando más bien tendrías que esquivarme.

In China we say, "You can't expect both ends of a sugar cane are as sweet." Sometimes love can be ugly. But one still has to take it and swallow it.

Math has proven the existence of God, because it is absolute and without contradiction; but the devil must exist as well, because we cannot prove it

Year by year, as his reputation grew beyond Englewood, it became clearer to him that coaching was his life's calling. Football coach was not what Harry and Matty had expected of their son, nor what his old classmates had predicted. In some ways it was a job below his own self-image. All of which worked in his favor. During his years in Englewood, Lombardi was driven by a contradiction, consumed by a sport and somewhat embarrassed that it was considered merely a game.

by choosing two aspects of a subject that appear to be in opposition, each can be examined in light of the other in order to better illuminate the entire subject, as long as one doesn't mistake the system for reality.

Emotional intelligence, the perfect oxymoron!

She could see the words Calvin Klein against the brown hair on the small of his back and it occurred to her that this was probably not at all what Calvin Klein had in mind.