Quotes About Contradiction

Aber sie tun es doch, sie sprechen von der Ohnmacht und praktizieren Macht, sie bekennen Demut und demütigen andere!

You will always be more than one person. You will always embody contradiction.

The message of the steeple is one that contradicts the message of the New Testament. Christians do not have to reach into the heavens to find God. He is here! With the coming of Immanuel, God is with us (see Matthew 1:23). And with His resurrection, we have an indwelling Lord. The steeple defies these realities.

Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.

Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.

I hated myself, but I also loved myself in a hateful way.

I may be wicked, but I'm not bad.

They were generally run by young men who mocked authority and preached egalitarianism yet had no qualms about ordering everyone else around and stealing their comrades' girlfriends.

The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand.

Sometimes people are good, and they do just what they should. But the very same people who are good sometimes are the very same people who are bad sometimes. It's funny but it's true. Its the same isn't it, for me and . . .

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.

Im Paradoxen erscheint die Wirklichkeit.

Verrückt, aber weise.Gefangen, aber frei.Physiker, aber unschuldig!

Je öfter sich ein Politiker widerspricht, desto größer ist er.

Der Mensch ist für mich ein Wesen, das nur durch paradoxe, komödiantische Mittel, Formen, dargestellt werden kann, denn der Mensch geht nicht auf wie eine Rechnung, und wo der Mensch so aufgeht, ist die Rechnung sicher gefälscht.

Power is paradoxical.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.

We humans are conflicted beings. Our beliefs don't always harmonize with our instincts, and our behavior doesn't always reflect our beliefs. ... We wage war between the person we are and the person we hope to become.