Quotes About Contradiction

Ist das Nein am Ja oder das Ja am Nein schuld?

why is it that the people who know how to enjoy themselves never have any money and the people who have money never know how to enjoy themselves?

If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea…does that mean that 1 enjoys it?

Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways? Just to be silly!

So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but...they had a golf course.

Catholics are against abortions. Catholics are against homosexuals. But, I can't think of anyone who has less abortions than homosexuals!

This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.

I don't want something that's good for headaches. I want something that's bad for headaches. And good for me.

Why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place?

It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men's dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for.

Human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

He would never have contradicted her, and when a woman is not contradicted, she has no motive for obstinacy in her absurdities.

The character of the publican and sinner is not always practically incompatible with that of the modern Pharisee, for the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, or the dullness of our own jokes.

The Christian theologian will never find a contradiction between the propositions of faith and reason, because it is his job to interpret them out of existence.

the Fallacy of the Stolen Concept. This fallacy, writes Nathaniel Branden, "consists of the act of using a concept while ignoring, contradicting or denying the validity of the concepts on which it logically and genetically depends.

It is important to realize that the Social Nurturance metaphor and the Moral Nurturance metaphor may sometimes contradict each other, even though they form a natural pairing. This occurs when you have to maintain social ties with people in your community who do not believe in or operate by the Moral Nurturance metaphor. Compromising with such people for the sake of maintaining social ties may require compromising on moral nurturance. M

Progressive and conservative worldviews contradict each other. Both are characterized in the brain via neural circuitry.

I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!

Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing about improvising.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.