Quotes About Contradiction

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

She is an incredibly intelligent idiot

And I didn't realize. I didn't take into account. Just. You know, this is real to you. I mean, I know that, we know that, but we don't at the same time. We really just never will. I don't think. Totally get that. You spend so much time discussing and debating it becomes... But. Well. I'm sorry.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite. Dorothy

He was a good man," she said, dullness with an obligatory injection of empathy. "No, he wasn't," I said, and she laughed like she clearly hadn't in a month.

As a man, I had been my most impressive when I loved her – and I was my next best self when I hated her.

You might have noticed that the human animal is fond of forming and clinging to prejudices, remaining their steadfast curator in the face of all reason and contradiction.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

Like the rest of us, Constantius was many men in the body of one.

Even a child could see the division between what the Galileans [i.e., Christians] say they believe and what, in fact, they do believe, as demonstrated by their actions. A religion of brotherhood and mildness which daily murders those who disagree with its doctrines can only be thought hypocrite, or worse.

If anyone tried to contradict the statement that what is true is true independently of our recognizing it as such, he would by his very assertion contradict what he had asserted; he would be in a similar position to the Cretan who said that all Cretans are liars.

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

She loved him whatever that meant but love was not an eternal thing like hatred and disgust.

If I hate her so much as I sometimes do, how can I love her? Can one really hate and love? Or is it only myself that I really hate?

I find myself always torn between two beliefs: the belief that life should be better than it is and the belief that when it appears better it is really worse.

as so often in science, statements touted as facts turn out to be opinions contradicted by other opinions that are also touted as facts.

We don't want to live like this, but we don't want to die

Scarlett O'Hara was a steel magnolia, not a New Woman.

their stories, tell their tales, pose for pictures, and shake their heads for the TV cameras. As one high school student told the reporter from the Today show, "Nothing much ever happens around here, so this is kind of fun. Sad, but fun at the same time.

We can think of the Matrix as the total web of lies we've internalized that keep us living in contradiction to our true self— the self that is defined by God through Christ alone.

Only a fool resists the delight of contradiction by nature