Quotes About Contradictions

Heinrich Zimmer: 'Myth is the sole and spontaneous image of life itself in its flowing harmony and mutually hostile contrarieties, in all the polyphony and harmony of their contradictions.

Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder and credulity.

Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called natural scarcities and on occasion, as Marx might put it, these barriers can be transformed into absolute contradictions and crises.

For this reason I get impatient with people who depict Marx's dialectic as a closed method of analysis. It is not finite; on the contrary, it is constantly expanding, and here he is explaining precisely how. We only have to review what we have already experienced in reading Capital; the movement of its argument is a perpetual reshaping, rephrasing and expansion of the field of contradictions.

The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.

si prestamos fe a ciertos filósofos, éstos nos prometen disminuir nuestra ignorancia; pero me temo que sea a costa de llevarnos a contradicciones

To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent. It means venturing out in many directions all at the same time, and I wonder if your friend didn't find himself in the throes of some sort of upheaval. Maybe he really did destroy his life's work. Maybe he revealed himself with all his inherent contradictions towards the end, and became a true human being in the best sense of the word.

Do you know what my rabbi says? That the mark of a man is his contradictions. We can long to be away and at home, both at the same time.

To be human is often an endless tangle of invisible forces and confounding paradoxes, of being many things all at the same time.

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

America comes from a flawed but wonderful idea. Many great things have sprung forth over the past few hundred years but there were deep issues in the beginning that now are starting to show up.

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

In our inherent contradictions as humans, and in order to validate our own pain, we deny the pain of others. But it is in acknowledging the pain of others that we achieve fully our humanity.

She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.

Wisdom I who have decided to love mankind instead of men, to love life's contradictions, impossibilities. I who have grown into a fine old philosopher, when suddenly the telephone rings, his voice prickling the length of my neck. Or he teases me, calls me sweet little goose and my heart careens. What we love in another is the life in that person; that is why we must never seek to possess him. sweet little goose

there is no circumstance, in all the contradictions of our most mysterious nature, that appears to be more humiliating than the use we are disposed to make of those sad examples which seem purposely marked for our correction and improvement.

America was, alas, a country of great eccentrics and great prudes, of great writers and few readers.

Life is complicated. You don't only have two simple choices: drunk or teetotaler; saint or sinner. It's more complicated than that.

You need contradictions to make an ideal.