psychological contradiction Quotes

You can’t hate people unless you love them.

How can we bless at one moment and curse at another?

I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.

Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne. Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.

Hate is unfulfilled love.

Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them in motion, throw everything at them until they reveal themselves further.

The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be processed in the most efficient way to see to it that they have the fewest dissenting opinions, that they have just those characteristics which are wholly incompatible with being an intellectual. This is a real internal psychological contradiction. People have to suppress the very questions which reading books raises.

The fact of the existence of two theories [causal and acausal] that contradict each other in Jung ... corresponds psychologically to the vascillation between 3 and 4.

It's the lack of humanity in the human psyche that haunts me. The hypocrisy. How people as a group can take something like tolerance and contort it into a new form of intolerance and conformity. The way humanity can justify any kind of evil.

What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.