Quotes About Contradiction

I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.

The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.

Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

The truth often sounds paradoxical.

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.

It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.

I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.

We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.

The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.