Quotes About Contradictory

Once the tremendous literary productivity of Zen masters is acknowledged, the question remains whether their profusion of words and countless instances of contradictory and absurd utterances and gestures make any sense.

He is as prickly as a bowl of shards, but he appreciates attractive things.

Here, too, we tend to be schizophrenic. We would all like to see government spending go down, provided it is not spending that benefits us. We would all like to see deficits reduced, provided it is through taxes imposed on others.

The accordion is the best instrument for mournful occasions because it is melancholy and beautiful and cumbersome and ridiculous at the same time.

theory is an extremely complicated thing, as varied and mixed-up and contradictory as life itself.

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

e se gli accadeva di sbagliar strada, ciò era perchè per alcuni uomini non esiste una strada giusta. A chi gli chiedeva che cosa intendesse fare nel mondo, dava risposte contraddittorie, perchè, come soleva dire (ed anche questo l'aveva già annotato)m egli portava in sè la possibilità per mille modi di esistenza, insieme alla segreta consapevolezza che, in fondo si trattava di altrettante impossibilità.

theologians are different in this respect, at any rate; at least they are sure that God exists, even though they make contradictory statements about Him.

But early on, adults start sending them contradictory. They'll give a kid a stuffed animal to hug and love and sleep with at the same time, they're serving them animals for dinner every night you think about it. But when you're young, you just accept what they tell you as the truth.

And while he protested that he was more than just a soldier, Churchill recognised in himself an obsession with war, along with a contradictory fear of that obsession. 'Much as war attracts me,' he had written to Clementine from the German army manoeuvres in 1909, '& fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations – I feel more deeply every year … what vile & wicked folly and barbarism it is

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

So supportive. So duplicitous. So self-destructive. Like a moth to a flame.

they can cherry-pick from statements they've made in the past, many of them contradictory, and end up convincing themselves of their intellectual lucidity

Human nature is both predictable and mysterious; prone to great and sudden advances, yet still mired in despicable self-interest.

Every woman is different. Basically they seem to be a combination of the best and the worst—both magic and terrible. I'm glad that they exist, however.

Passion is a thunderstorm, there and gone. It nourishes, si, but it drowns, too.

This is a tremendous result: on the one hand, taking quantum mechanics into account resolves the problems generated by the infinities of Einstein's theory of gravity, that is to say, the singularities. On the other, taking gravity i to account solves the problems generated by quantum field theory, that is to say, the divergences. Far from being contradictory, as they at first seemed, the two theories each offer the solution to the problems posed by the other!

It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderers behind it, to instruct that these madmen are completely without stops, are licentious, totally depraved — and then not make adequate preparations to defend himself from the madman's attack. Either they don't really believe their own spiel or they harbor some sort of subconscious death wish.

You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!

You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!

Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together-humble dependence and manly independence; humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.