Quotes About Contradictions

Each story Werner hears contains its own flaws and contradictions, as though the truth is a machine whose gears are not meshing.

Motherhood is not only something very pure and very full of love, it can be full of dark things, too.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

Love is a drama of contradictions.

Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred - Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned parents who knew Freud and Jung never saw the contradictions in feeding us on them.

Muchos se preguntan si ha desaparecido la izquierda en México. Me parece que la izquierda mexicana ha quedado sepultada bajo el peso de sus torpezas y sus incoherencias.

I have a tremendous fascination with the United States of America, the grand, swirling variousness of it, the way it siphons off the ambitious, the poor, and the abused from so many other nations, the ability we seem to have to be noble and heroic at the same time as we are being arrogant and stupid.

There are no logical contradictions in the Christian faith. If there were even one logical contradiction at the center of the Christian faith, the Christian faith would be necessarily false.

De mensen zitten barstensvol medelijden voor invaliden en blinden, je kunt gerust zeggen dat ze een hele voorraad liefde achter de hand hebben. Dat had ik al heel vaak gemerkt. 't Wemelt van dat soort liefde. Je kunt niet het tegendeel beweren. 't Is alleen zo jammer dat de mensen toch zo honds blijven, met zoveel liefde in voorraad. Het komt er niet uit, dat is het. Het zit binnenin en het blijft binnenin, ze hebben er niets aan. Ze gaan kapot aan die liefde, binnenin.

Theology is a] web of contradictions and delusions.

The work of art offers an experience of contradictions and incommensurabilities – these are much better than truths.

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

L'amore è una faccenda intima strana e piena di contraddizioni, visto che non di rado amiamo qualcuno solo perchè amiamo noi stessi, per egoismo, avidità, desiderio fisico, brama di dominare l'oggetto d'amore e asservirlo; o al contrario, per desiderio di asservirci e essere dominati dal nostro amante, e in fondo l'amore assomiglia all'odio e gli è più prossimo di quanto non si pensi normalmente.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

And who shall say how many passions and how many hostile thoughts may live together in the mind of man?

The idea of love was always easier than the practice of it.

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

I looked at him, at his unshaven profile, the wisps of dark hair curling out from under his dark wool hat, the empty coffee cup forgotten in his hand. He was a mass of contradictions. It struck me that I was taking life lessons from a five-six semiretired burglar whose boyfriend, not twentyfour hours earlier, had executed a man against a brick wall. My life, I reflected, was taking some strange turns.

Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God's redemptive action.

On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in life and in fiction.

You can superfocus sometimes, but also space out when you least mean to. You can radiate confidence and also feel as insecure as a cat in a kennel. You can perform at the highest level, feeling incompetent as you do so. You can be loved by many, but feel as if no one really likes you. You can absolutely, totally, intend to do something, then forget to do it. You can have the greatest ideas in the world, but feel as if you can't accomplish a thing.

The mind seeks but cannot find the precise place and hour. We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.

It may be that the best we can hope for when it comes to utopias is that they be held at arm's length and regarded as aesthetic constructions, in which various proportions are neatly worked out, contradictions eliminated, and outside intrusions minimized. They are fictions, artifacts of culture. And we should be wary if they ever become much more.

tal vez cada relación con los hombres se limita a reproducir las mismas contradicciones, y en ciertos ambientes incluso las mismas respuestas complacientes.