The most frequent reason why men desire to hurt each other, ariseth hence, that many men at the same time have an Appetite to the same thing; which yet very often they can neither enjoy in common, nor yet divide it.
I am a living contradiction.
One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
You can't go east and west at the same time.
A double bind is far worse than a straightforward damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't dilemma. It requires you to obey two mutually exclusive commands: Anything you do to fulfill one violates the other.
Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic
Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
