Quotes About Incongruence

If at any point you discover yourself hesitating, or being incongruent, or putting off until tomorrow something you could try now, or just needing some new choices, or being bored, glance over your right shoulder and there will be two madmen there, sitting on stools, insulting you.

Behaviors and feelings rarely line up

Behaviours and feelings rarely line up.

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.

Aquilo que, creio, produz em mim o sentimento profundo, em que vivo, de incongruência com os outros, é que a maioria pensa com a sensibilidade, e eu sinto com o pensamento. Para o homem vulgar, sentir é viver e pensar é saber viver. Para mim, pensar é viver e sentir não é mais que o alimento de pensar.

en nuestro contorno coexisten culturas, hábitos e ideas incongruentes entre sí, que parecen provenir de visiones muy diferentes del pasado y del futuro.

Tom isn't an evil person—he is well regarded in his company. Neither is Brad, who is actually quite lovely with colleagues. Anyone can be knocked off balance and may respond incongruently. Incongruence does not make someone a bad person, but it can render them less effective. Situations that involve significant change are particularly likely to cause people to lose balance.

La realidad es lo que nos ofrece resistencia, incluido nuestro propio cuerpo. Nuestro cuerpo es real, demasiado real, y por eso nos da tantos problemas, porque no se ajusta a nuestros deseos, no está sano a voluntad, no se cura cuando queremos.

Un día hablamos del paraíso, ¿no? Tú dijiste que no creías ni en el otro mundo ni en el paraíso, ¿te acuerdas? -Sí, me acuerdo. -Si la muerte tiene algún sentido, ¿no crees que es incongruente negar la existencia del otro mundo y del paraíso? -¿Por qué? -Porque al morir todo acaba, ¿no? Y si no existe un después, es imposible que la muerte tenga sentido...

I don't like it when the inside parts of you don't match up with what the brain part of you thinks. If there were a medicine to make this go away I would take it, even if it was cherry flavor, which tastes terrible and is not my favorite.

La medicina académica evita cuidadosamente la interpretación del síntoma, con lo que destierra tanto el síntoma como la enfermedad al ámbito de lo incongruente. Con ello, la señal pierde su auténtica función; los síntomas se convierten en señales incomprensibles.

not only do the edges not fit, they're not even from the same damn puzzle.