Quotes About Contradiction

Logic said it was impossible but logic wasn't doing too well here lately, was it?

I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live. – G. D. Roberts, Shantaram.

But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in is precisely because it isn't wise.

God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.

What we tell, is rarely what we do.

But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise.

Is love, yes, when a terrible feeling makes you happy?

All of us, we are not one thing: we're always between two worlds, and the idea of not being sure is very appealing to me.

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises.

In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test.

I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'

I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.

What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.

I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring.

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.

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.