Quotes About Contradiction

I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

For all his culture, Cecil was an ascetic at heart, and nothing in his love became him like the leaving of it.

yet, have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time—beautiful?" "Beautiful?" said Miss Bartlett, puzzled at the word. "Are not beauty and delicacy the same?" "So one would have thought," said the other helplessly. "But things are so difficult, I sometimes think.

Indeed, who would have supposed that tolerance, sympathy, and a sense of humour would inhabit that militant form?

This solitude oppressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.

yet, have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time—beautiful?

Not even that. It may be halfway in the wrong direction. I can't explain. I don't believe in all these fads, and yet I don't like saying that I don't believe in them.

A luz que eu possuía apagou-se há seis semanas. Não quero ser bom, nem amável, nem corajoso. Se continuar a viver, serei… não essas coisas, mas o oposto delas. E também não é isso que quero; não quero nada.

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.

The core teachings of Buddhism stand in distinct contradiction to Hinduism. Whereas Hinduism believes that evil does not exist and is an illusion, Buddhism embraces evil, and the solution for evil is summarized in the Four Noble Truths.

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

It was a place that denied the contradiction between its commitments to freedom and democracy and its practice of slavery and white supremacy.

I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase "a long poem" is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

It is the nature of men to act negatively but to dream and hope positively.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. (in a letter written while she was in college)

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

I love humanity but I hate people.

Todas las calaveras tienen una cara de risa que no viene a cuento

A veces no sé si sos un genio que tiene larguísimas lagunas de pelotudez o un pelotudo que tiene mínimos chispazos de genio.

Si no fueran unos sanguinarios hijos de puta, serían para cagarse de la risa.

There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.

People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book. Buy it, yes, but don't read it. [Regarding "The Fool's Progress"]

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.