Quotes About Contradiction

Since I'm a cat who doesn't know what I am, I wear track pants with old-skool Nikes but Gina Lollobrigida skintight sweaters. I am caught between childhood and va-va-voom.

Let's enjoy our misery before we say it's fun.

I am not exuding anything, said Holly through gritted teeth. Orion tapped her shoulder. I beg to differ. You're exuding right now, a wonderful aura. It's pastel blue with little dolphins.

Nee,' zei ze, 'ik zal hem niet missen.' Maar haar ogen vertelden een heel ander verhaal.

People are strange, they neither wish to live nor die.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

What I Wish, this I do not practice, but what I hate is what I do.

Io ti ho dato tutta la libertà che volevi.» «Questa è una contraddizione in termini. Una persona non è mai libera se la libertà le deve essere 'data'. Chi sei tu per 'darmi' la libertà?»

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

Society must be organized in such a way that man's social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it. If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature.

What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.  

Positive , adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Religious folk could be so deliciously predictable. He could set his watch by their hypocrisy.

Ne t'étonne de rien, la réalité a deux visages, les hommes aussi.

So sind meine Berge nun mal: vereinen Heimatverbundenheit und Fernweh, sind Ort der Zuflucht und der Durchreise, ein Land, in dem Milch und Honig fließt, aber auch Blut. Weder Paradies noch Hölle. Fegefeuer.

Ce sera toujours un pays de factions, de désordre, de passe-droits, de népotisme, de corruption. Mais c'est aussi le pays de la douceur de vivre, de la chaleur humaine, de la générosité. Et de tes amis les plus vrais.

Et il m'apparut que ce geste qui consiste à cueillir une fleur et à l'ajouter au bouquet que l'on tient déjà dans sa main, et que l'on serre même contre son cÅ"ur, est le geste le plus beau et le plus cruel à la fois, parce qu'il rend hommage à la fleur en lui donnant la mort.

Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason.

Mislove manages the neat trick of having two meanings that are almost opposite each other. While this is not an uncommon phenomenon (for example, left can refer to both having departed and remaining), words in this category are usually significantly more boring than mislove. Monodynamic

In just the first letter of the OED you will find words as magnificent as agathokakological (composed of good and evil), as delicately shaded as addubitation (the suggestion of doubt), and as odd as antithalian (opposed to fun or festivity). I

so we could have roses in December. Someone did not add, So we could have blizzards in June and food poisoning when there was nothing to eat.