Quotes About Contradiction

More than once Nynaeve had been shocked at her own cruelty, even while she was delighted at her inventiveness.

Semak berduri hitam pun terkadang berbunga, indah dan putih di antara durinya Verin

The young, naïve socialists who dream of socialism "from below" are caught in a conundrum. Non-state socialist communes can only work (poorly) on a small scale in an otherwise capitalist world. To replace capitalism with this system necessitates centralizing power in order to plan the economy. That ultimately results in state ownership, control, and tyranny. Society-wide socialism "from below" that doesn't entail state ownership is a contradiction in terms.

I have seen these marshes a thousand times, yet each time they're new. It's wrong to call them benign. You could just as well call them cruel and senseless, they are all of those things, but the reality of them overwhelms halfway conceptions.

what he wants, is all around him, but he doesn't want that because it is all around

the contradiction the scientists are stuck with, is that of mind. Mind has no matter or energy but they can't escape its predominance over everything they do. Logic exists in the mind. Numbers exist only in the mind. I don't get upset when scientists say that ghosts exist in the mind. It's that only that gets me. Science is only in your mind too, it's just that that doesn't make it bad. Or ghosts either.

Man handelte in diesem Land - und mitunter bis zu den höchsten Graden der Leidenschaft und ihren Folgen - immer anders, als man dachte, oder dachte anders, als man handelte.

Ideals have curious properties, and one of them is that they turn into their opposites when one tries to live up to them.

Das ganze Zeitalter betet das Geld, die Ordnung, das Wissen, Rechnen, Messen und Wägen, alles in allem also den Geist des Geldes und seiner Verwandten an und beklagt es zugleich.

A]lles ist moralisch, aber die Moral selbst ist nicht moralisch!

How can I love all this so much and be insane?

It was an irony that Rudiger, the anarchist, the man who believed in individualism and the abolition of all political institutions, should be so good at leading a team of fishermen. Rudiger didn't care for teamwork in the abstract.

Although it was sometimes confusing or even contradictory, having to listen to two different realities was beneficial to me in the long term.

In life, as in dreams, however, things often go by contraries

Again Anne shivered. How terrible Ã¢â'¬Â¦ sitting opposite each other at table Ã¢â'¬Â¦ lying down beside each other at night Ã¢â'¬Â¦ going to church with their babies to be christened Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and hating each other through it all! Yet they must have loved to begin with. Was it possible she and Gilbert could ever Ã¢â'¬Â¦ nonsense! The Pringles were getting on her nerves. Handsome

Pienso que una persona verdaderamente perfecta, sería algo muy poco interesante

Ä°çimde birçok Anne var. Bazen, bu yüzden bu kadar sorunlu bir insan olduÄŸumu düÅŸünüyorum. Yaln?zca tek bir Anne olsa her ÅŸey çok daha rahat olurdu ama o zaman da hiç ilginç olmazd?.

Mant?kl? olmak harika bir ÅŸey olmal? ama yine de mant?kl? bir insan olmak istediÄŸimi düÅŸünmüyorum çünkü mant?kl? insanlar hiç romantik deÄŸiller.

Miss Josephine Barry wrote back that she had never read anything so amusing in her life. That kind of puzzled us because the stories were all very pathetic and almost everybody died. But I'm glad Miss Barry liked them.

Moreover, you couldn't get animal sex and tight leather and sex toys along with something warm and comforting and meaningful.

Perhaps the god who had made the Cat People intended them as a joke. They had schools, but no education; politicians but no government; people, but no personal integrity; faces, but no concept of face. One had to admit that their god had gone a little too far with his little joke.

Men were odd. One day they were hard, far too hard; the next day they were soft, far too soft. They were like porcupines: prickly on the outside, but with soft bellies.

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other

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