“The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.” “It was beautiful to be heartbroken, it was as pleasurable as a thing could be.
- Andy Warhol. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. “When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. We do not know the gods of religions.
But pointless.” We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take us all the way.” The most delicious nightmares, the kind that one has only after the wall between the mundane and the magical is breached directly before one's eyes; nightmares that make you smile as you shiver in your sleep.” . “...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.” These thoughts induced tears, which he must not see; and she tried not to think too much about the terrible mystery which was to be enacted . “I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.” I don't want you to come too close. Rem Koolhaas So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. I am a deeply superficial person. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink” “When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. “Nature is what we know. I want to be with you.” “The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. “...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, and a body that is worth about 98¢.”
“One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. Funny Oxymoron Quotes. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people.” It's the people I tell them to that can't keep them. are contradictory, they are very different from…. “He felt indestructible because destroyed.”
“I have never agreed with my other self wholly. contradictory definition: 1. “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. “What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.” “So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.”
“It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a “It was nothing, but it was somehow everything—it was that something for each of them had happened.” And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.” Quotes tagged as "contradictory" Showing 1-30 of 56 “When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted.
“It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.” “If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.” I don't want to tell you where I am. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. “Decide what you want and go for it, Fred, it's just a matter of will power!"
In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. "Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction."
I want to be held. This incongruity can be accidental or deliberate, as in cases of humor. “How long is this posthumous life of mine to last?” Yotam Ottolenghi. “Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.” Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. “And suffering we know breeds images, it breeds the most beautiful images of all.”
The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.
I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. .” “But there can be intuitions even here of a more sublime agony.” “The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.” 7 Share Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of … So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times. Of course I can keep secrets. “Reading bad books is worse than reading nothing at all.”
And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.” If two or more facts, pieces of advice, etc. “I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.” Free Daily Quotes.