Quotes About Contradiction

He found the Archimedean point, but he used it against himself; it seems that he was permitted to find it only under this condition

Logic is no doubt unshakable, but it can't withstand a person who wants to live.

Manche leugnen den Jammer durch Hinweis auf die Sonne, er leugnet die Sonne durch Hinweis auf den Jammer.

Logic is no doubt unshakable, but it can't withstand a person who wants to live.

Two alternatives: either to make oneself infinitesimally small, or to be so. The former is perfection and hence inaction; the latter a beginning and therefore action.

Die Logik war unerschütterlich, aber einem Menschen, der leben will, widersteht sie nicht.

You know when you see a play and there is a character whom you know so well that you hate them and love them at the same time? That is Michael Potts' portrayal of Turnbo in August Wilson's 'Jitney.'

I recognized that a lot in my writing I'm trying to show both sides of the coin - the sour and sweet. Iron & Wine seemed to fit with that duality and I thought it would be more interesting to call the project that rather than use Sam Beam.

I quite like the Queen. Now, this must come as a fairly amazing statement for someone who is avowedly left wing, pro-independence and anti-monarchy, but there you go.

Margaret Thatcher was a lady. I suppose she was a woman in a man's world, but that's about the only nice thing I have to say.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

Outwardly mocking, but never quite to the point if not wanting to participate.

He went on, talking about how opposites could actually be the same thing, and how they occurred together in nature, not actually opposites at all, but simply destined to take part in different reactions.

I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

Este oscuro corazón late al lado de la necesaria ironía sin la cual se apagaría la reflexión.

The Problem-Solving Power of Integrative Thinking The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise.1 —F. Scott Fitzgerald

The contradictory nature of the socialist utopias is one explanation of the violence involved in the attempt to impose them: it takes infinite force to make people do what is impossible".

When I said I wanted to die in my sleep, I meant I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

Love is a negative form of hatred.

Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.

But in neurotic anxiety, two conditions are necessary: (1) the threat must be to a vital value; and (2) the threat must be present in juxtaposition with another threat so that the individual cannot avoid one threat without being confronted by another. In patterns of neurotic anxiety, the values held essential to the individual's existence as a personality are in contradiction with each other.