Quotes About Contradiction

I'm not into cartoons. That's the irony of it.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

I love irony.

'Irony' is such an over-used word.

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Everyone wants to be liked. It's a basic human impulse for some of you, and that explains the turn-on-a-dime hypocrisy from people like Jim Carrey and Sean Penn.

I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn't get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn't join a biker club.

I always joke that I'm a feminist with a boob job.

A heart of fire in a shell of ice.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

It Is The Wisdom Of Crocodiles, That Shed Tears When They Would Devour

We teach our boys to firebomb villages, but we won't let them write fuck on the side of their planes because it's obscene.

But what if Rousseau was wrong and that inner self was, as traditional moralists believed, the seat of asocial or harmful impulses, indeed of evil?

TIME' is generally 'outfront' on the face of things, , however, 'TIME' has been known to be; 'behind' on the 'face of things' on the same grandfather's clock:

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Eso fue el románico: una gracia que se evitaba a sí misma.

There is no absolute hate or evil. On the contrary hate or evil are always intimately blended with love and goodness. What causes more hate and evil is paradoxically what tends to be done in the name of love and goodness. Hence, in order to reduce hate and evil we need to be aware of love and goodness, rather than hate and evil.

We always like those who admire us we do not always like those whom we admire.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

What are you like inside? Don't you have feelings where you love everyone, and at the same time you hate everyone? Or—don't you have times when everything goes the way you want, but nothing feels good or right? That's what I mean," he'd say, "about my black horse and my white horse.

Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.

No one does antimaterialism better than multigazillionaire rock stars.