Quotes About Contradiction

Not at all," said Mrs. Oliver. "Least likely person. It seems to work out in real life just the same as in books.

Dead? Dead? That young Norse God in the prime of his health and strength. Struck down all in a moment. Healthy young men didn't die like that, choking over a whiskey and soda...

What beats me—it always does—is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.

The irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

Paganism therefore implies the rejection of this discontinuity, this rupture, this fundamental tear, which is the "dualistic fiction," which, as Nietzsche wrote in The Antichrist, "degenerated God into the contradiction of life, instead of being its transfiguration and eternal Yes!

The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

Christmas in Southern California was as much an oxymoron as jumbo shrimp.

would certainly not have admired Jesus Christ and he would have been horrified by St Paul—does

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

Love is a complicated emotion because you can learn something or hear something that goes against what you have come to know personally. It can be very challenging to what you believe.

Peter Thiel and I disagree on 99 percent of things.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

I am afraid of blood, but for some reason often I put blood in my photos... I don't know why.

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

Atheists are pious people.

I have a wandering eye and a lazy eye so they cancel each other out. It's a push.

People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they're trying to fool you or because they're hypocrites. It's because they badly want to be that thing, and so they'll try to be it.

I come from a strong religious background, and I had a very conservative upbringing. So I was nervous, and confused. Here I was wanting to be Whitney Houston, so why did I have to dress in lingerie to do that? I didn't get it.