Quotes About Contradiction

You are an enigma wrapped in a sticky bun.

It was a triptych, three canvases hinged together to make one image when it was open, another image when it was closed. He had always assumed she liked the duplicity of the piece. It was just like Angie, one thing inside, another out.

For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction against Himself

Faith is rather a freedom, a permission. It is permitted to be so—that the believer in God's Word may hold on to this Word in everything, in spite of all that contradicts it.

Think pink but don't wear it

My dialectical method is not only different from the Hegelian, but is its direct opposite.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist

Hegel is not to be blamed for depicting the nature of the modern state as it is, but rather for presenting what is as the essence of the state. The claim that the rational is actual is contradicted precisely by an irrational actuality, which everywhere is the contrary of what it asserts and asserts the contrary of what it is.

One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie.

There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

Knowledge is annoying

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness

Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive collection of inanimate objects, the brutal destruction of the fragile world around them, all seemed at odds with the men they were supposed to become.

In Teddy's experience people who claimed to be one thing were generally the opposite

One of the things Jackson liked about Julia was her independence, one of the things he didn't like about Julia was her independence.

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.

Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.

There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy, and how America can create interesting levels of contradiction.