Quotes About Contradiction

OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.

You are a gentleman, sir,' muttered Cosca. 'I am a murderer.' 'I see no reason why a man cannot be both . . .

They were well matched. Optimist and pessimist, idealist and pragmatist, dreamer and cynic.

Generosity and goodwill sit well on you but they simply do not go with my complexion at all. A certain number of bitter enemies are an essential accessory for a lady of fashion.

But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first,

Folk aren't just cowards or heroes. They're both and neither, depending on how things stand. Depending on who stands with them, who stands against. Depending on the life they've had. The death they see waiting.

Folk aren't just cowards or heroes. They're both and neither, depending on how things stand. Depending on who stands with them, who stands against. Depending on the life they've had. The death they see waiting. They

He would've liked his axe to hand, but hoping for a thing often brought on the opposite.

You know, we might've fucked up the planet, sucking out all the oil, melting the ice caps, allowing ska music to flourish, but we made Coca-Cola, so goddamn it, people weren't all bad.

It didn't make any logical sense for her to be worried, although Ig knew that worry and logic rarely traveled together.

People were entranced by flame and repelled by human suffering, and wasn't that some kind of design flaw?

There's always a little decency in the worst places . . . and always a little secret selfishness in the best.

They led me into things that I regretted in the moment but were later a pleasure to remember. Real sin, I think, produces the same emotions, in the exact opposite order.

As pessoas eram fascinadas pelo fogo e repelidas pelo sofrimento humano, e não seria isso uma espécie de erro de projeto?

There's always a little decency in the worst places.... and always little secret selfishness in the best.

You know, we might've fucked up the planet, sucking out all the oil, melting ice caps, allowing ska music to flourish, but we made Coca-Cola, so goddamn it, people weren't all bad." "As

There is something about mountains that moves the soul. They arouse a powerful sense of spiritual awareness and a notion of our own transient and fragile mortality and our insignificant place in the universe. They have about them an ethereal, evocative addiction that I find impossible to resist. They are an infuriating and fascinating contradiction. Climbing rarely makes sense but nearly always feels right.

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

Irving didn't want this to be true—it contradicted his own published work—but he told me, "One thing I do pride myself on is looking at the data, and allowing my mind to be changed when the data's different than I expected.

Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?

Two souls alas! dwell in my breast.

I am the Spirit that always denies!

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

Mußte denn das so sein, daß das, was des Menschen Glückseligkeit macht, wieder die Quelle seines Elendes würde?