Quotes About Contradiction

It is the seeming contradiction that we must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong.

He had a good dream, to come out number one." But the other son accurately sees the contradiction which such an upheaval of values leads to, "He never knew who he was."*

Riskless warfare in pursuit of human rights is a moral contradiction. The concept of human rights assumes that all human life is of equal value. Risk-free warfare presumes that our lives matter more than those we are intervening to save.

I should've known it," he groaned. "The moment you pick up a bare-assed stripper from the Crazy Horse, she's bound to be religious.

Une idée était venue depuis longtemps se loger dans mon esprit dont j'ai eu beaucoup de mal à me débarrasser par la suite et peut-être ne m'en suis-je jamais débarrassé entièrement. Les nazis étaient humains. Et ce qu'il y avait d'humain en eux, c'était leur inhumanité.

No one has ever managed to resolve the contradiction there is in wanting to defend something human in the company of men.

It's strange, he thought, how beautiful human hands can be in spite of what they do.

Death is a thing of beauty, but equally a destroyer of beauty. That is the paradox that we are left with.

Glanzman is enigmatic. Half of me is a nice lovable paternal type, the other a hardnose and cunning tummler. Against my better judgment I'll listen to my lovable side." "Let's both listen.

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.

Russiaphobia; what is that?" "Wearing one's rubies and emeralds at the same time," Mrs. Shamefoot said in a hushed voice.

Our argument is simple: A Christian who supports Trump either does not understand this person and his positions, or supports him in spite of their Christian convictions.

In the same way that a person cannot love the Yankees and the Red Sox or follow veganism and frequently devour a steak, one cannot really love Jesus and wish to follow him and also vote for a person who so clearly embodies the opposite of everything Christ taught, died for, and demands of us.

It is very doubtful that one can implement Jesus's command to love one's enemies and kill them at the same time.

That he loved her was his life's greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.

That old buffalo woman gave Nanapush her views. She told him that he had survived by doing the opposite of all the others. Where they abandoned, he saved. Where they were cruel, he was kind. Where they betrayed, he was faithful. Nanapush then decided that in all things he would be unpredictable. As he had completely lost trust in authority, he decided to stay away from others and to think for himself, even to do the most ridiculous things that occurred to him.

Our love is a hurting delicacy, an old killer whiskey, a curse, and too beautiful for words.

complicated women— fearful at heart but evil in deed.

Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two who lived together fifty years and hated each other all that time. I can't believe they really did. Somebody has said that 'hate is only love that has missed its way.' I feel sure that under the hatred they really loved each other . . . just as I really loved you all those years I thought I hated you . . . and I think death would show it to them. I'm glad I found out in life.

FEELING is so different from KNOWING. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

There is a truth in Schopenhauer's view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say 'Let's get a rough idea', for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.

Tautology and contradiction are, however, not senseless; they are part of the symbolism, in the same way that "0" is part of the symbolism of Arithmetic.