Quotes About Contradiction

Apenas é compreensível que se peça conselhos aos outros para saber bem, ao agir ao contrário, que somos bem nós, bem em desacordo com a Outragem.

Let us create theories and think them through patiently and honestly, only to contradict them by our actions, and to justify those actions with theories that condemn our earlier theories... Let us carve out a path in life and then immediately take another contrary path. Let us adopt all the gestures and all the attitudes of something that we neither are nor want to be, nor even want to be thought to be.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Un pensamiento no paradójico me resulta casi insoportable, un pensamiento cerrado en sí mismo, coherente, que no admite la paradoja (Fernando Savater)

No is a better word than Yes

free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.

there has never been a satisfactory account of the origin of evil, and there will be none on this side of the consummation of the kingdom of God. Evil is a vast excrescence, a monstrous contradiction that cannot be explained but can only be denounced and resisted wherever it appears.64

Fans don't even know what they want at times.

The most telling thing about 'Fargo,' both the now-classic movie and the television series, is that it doesn't take place in Fargo.

It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.

Getting a moral lecture from the fashion industry is like Jeffrey Dahmer criticising your diet.

I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.

I like anti-hero women. Negative female characters interest me.

It's funny 'cos I think a lot about kids who grow up with their parents being really important members of their fields, and they just go the opposite way.

My Internet friends who I play games with say, 'This guy's a fighter?' I'm the last person they expect to be a fighter.

I don't mind categories, but it's so hard to find one that fits.

From the moment he took the oath of office in 1993 until he left the White House in 2001, Bill Clinton was a paradox in power. He presided over the United States prosperous and at peace - but never at peace with itself.

My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game.

Judaism is a whole line of values that have existed for thousands of years, but the democratic idea is a new idea, and significant parts of it stand in contradiction to Judaism.

Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.

It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security on the other, and often simultaneously. Contradictory desires mean that life can never be wholly satisfying or without frustration.

I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot.