Quotes About Contradictions

I think a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.

Sisters, drop everything. Walk away from the lake, leaning on each other's shoulders when you need the support. Feel the contradictions of another truth ready to be born: shame turned inside out is rage.

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems except the things in the world that just don't add up.

Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile.

What people want to read often seems incongruous. A pair of biker-types taking away Thoughts of the Dalai Lama. People without access to instruments requesting sheet music. Aspiring poets sharing their work and then borrowing horror stories.

Intellectual life in the caliphal court just before and after the Abbasid revolution (750), during which time Ibn al-Muqaffa was active, revolved around questions of what we would now call rationalism – that is, questions of verifiability of information beyond the claims of revealed religions which necessarily, and notoriously, contradicted each other.

Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.

It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

There Is No Single View on Marriage Presented in the Bible

Solo en la medida en que la práctica de la vida se vea libre de sus contradicciones y de su irracionalidad, el mapa podrá corresponder a su realidad.

The necessity to find ever-new solutions for the contradictions in his existence, to find ever-higher forms of unity with nature, his fellowmen and himself, is the source of all psychic forces which motivate man, of all his passions, affects and anxieties.

Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

Power for man, as the genius of Hegel saw, is the ability to support contradictions, nothing less.

It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation. —Joseph Conrad, Some Reminiscences

Love and desire do not have to be mutually exclusive. Many couples find a way to integrate their contradictions without resorting to compartmentalization. But it starts with the understanding that we can never eliminate the dilemma. Reconciling the erotic and the domestic is not a problem to solve; it is a paradox to manage.

Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems

As I said, I started with poetry, and I also wrote criticism and dialogue. But I realized that I was most successful at dialogue. Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay you are not supposed to contradict yourself. But in the theater, by inventing various characters, you can. My characters are contradictory not only in their language, but in their behavior as well.

We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.

There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit.

Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from scene to scene than as a whole, the intelligence shines in its understanding of contradictions, keeping a comic distance from the emotional investment of teenagers that defined 'Ridgemont High' and later the adolescent angst movies of John Hughes.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

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