#contradict

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. ↗

The four stages of acceptance: 1. This is worthless nonsense. 2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view. 3. This is true, but quite unimportant. 4. I always said so." (Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464) ↗

— J.B.S. Haldane

#dispute #haldane #opportunism #science #self-contradiction

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. ↗

— Andre Breton

#cease #certain #certain point #communicable #contradictions

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#himself #must #never #nothing #person

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#compromise #compromised #contradictory #defeat #men

Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to. ↗

— Charles Dance

#conclusion #contradicts #day #else #every

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#authority #contradiction #exercise #over #same

Good morning is a contradiction of terms. ↗

— Jim Davis

#contradiction #good #good morning #terms

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#contradictions #fascinating #human #human behavior #maddening

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. ↗