Quotes About Contradiction

When I'm married I want to be single, and when I'm single I want to be married.

My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards.

One of my missions is to get people to go, "Oh, she's really nice and I really like her, but what were the words she just said?!" I want your instincts to be at odds with your mind.

Humanity is a deceptive noun that suggests our best qualities as a species, though it often masks prejudice and inequity.

If you try to fail but succeed, which have you done?

Darwin's picture of the history of life "contradict[ed] what the animal forms buried in the rocky strata of our earth tell us of their own introduction and succession upon the surface of the globe.

I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.

The short answer to that is 'no.' The long answer is 'fuck no.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction. ALBERT EINSTEIN

In one test, subjects were presented with contradictory statements made by George Bush and John Kerry. Republicans judged Kerry's flip-flop harshly, while letting Bush off the hook for his. Democrats did the reverse. Interestingly, the brain scans showed that the parts of the brain governing emotion were far more active during the experiment than the reasoning parts.

Afortunadamente, como aprendimos de Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard y Nietzsche, esta contradicción y este conflicto son una señal más de que la lógica y la razón son impotentes.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Science depends on dialectic in which only when thesis and antithesis are developed can there be an ultimate synthesis.

Perhaps it was a failure right from the start: slave owners preaching freedom and equality. But it would be a lie, an evil lie, to say that the American experiment did not give the world a glorious and transcendent vision of human beings: worth affirming in their differences, vital in their contradiction. That is still a vision of human existence worth fighting for.

Digitalur är symptomatiska för vår motsägelsefulla tidsålder. De ger oss exakt tid på nanosekunden, men ingen kontext: en oändlig följd av "Du är här"-pilar, men ingen karta.

I know a lot of wealthy people, and yet not many of them drive a Rolls Royce or a Ferrari! However, I also know some of poor people on the verge of bankruptcy driving Bentleys!

The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred.

I wanted to go in one direction, but my father forced me to follow his direction, and, somehow, he won. In one of these compelling situations, he wanted me to join the police force, but he had previously said that I didn't have the bastard brains to pass my driving test. What a contradiction of terms?

Marcos Axiom — everything said is the opposite of the facts

The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.

to him Marx and Rand were the same because he went by pant size

Life and death have equal authority in nature. When laws contradict so fundamentally they cause mere confusion in the average soul