Quotes About Contradiction

Death is beautiful, the way you are . . . If it's so beautiful why must I live now, live first?

though you seem so emotional you have no feeling

I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand

Love is...' he paused and then laughed. 'Love is like an armchair cover. It hides a multitude of sins. It's washable and may well have a riot of roses and auriculas splashed over it, but underneath everything is all ripped up.

You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this, for men are impatient with such things and do not brook contradiction.

I'll tell you the truth, don't think I'm lying: I've to run backwards to keep from flying.

The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of naturewhichever is convenient. The principle of contradiction has been repealed.

Our minds must make an enormous effort to find the natural sweetness of life in its fullness. The way back is at least as long as the one that brought us here. For Hobbes and Locke nature is near and unattractive, and mans movement into society was easy and unambiguously good. For Rousseau nature is distant and attractive, and the movement was hard and divided man.

Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.

Happiness, for Rand, is not mere pleasure or desire-satisfaction. It is that state of "non-contradictory joy" (Atlas 1022) that is the concomitant of achieving what one has rationally identified as objectively good.

Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.

For a genius thief you really are a stupid girl aren't you?

If we hadn't hated him a lot, we might have liked him a little at that moment. But we did. So we didn't.

You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'... You can't have it both ways.

Well, technically, we'd be re-stealing them," he said dryly. "It's kind of like a double negative.

Esto es una ratonera. Cómoda, soleada, con vistas al mar, eso sí, pero una ratonera, quizás la mejor, y precisamente por eso, una de las peores.

Pourquoi est-il impossible de faire du bien à quelqu'un sans lui faire de mal ? Pourquoi est-il impossible d'aimer quelqu'un sans le détruire ?

Ci si innamora di persone che non si sopportano, di persone che rappresentano un pericolo insostenibile... Nell'amore, io vedo un trucco del mio istinto per non assassinare l'altro.

Je suis monstrueusement gentil, tellement gentil que si je me rencontrais, je vomirais

Que una enorme parte de mala fe se mezclara con mi indignación no contradice el fondo de la cuestión

La muerte contenida dentro de la vida me asustó.

Doktorlar, "patolojik duygusuzluk" teÅŸhisi koydular, terimlerdeki çeliÅŸkinin fark?nda deÄŸillerdi

Personne ne connaît mieux un individu que son assassin. [...] Les prix Nobel de la paix sont souvent des assassins, mais les prix Nobel de littérature sont toujours des assassins.

Si las palabras tienen una memoria similar, no hay duda de que la palabra «no» es la que más cadáveres tiene en su activo.