Quotes About Contradiction

Not unknown am I to the goddess [Venus] who mingles with her cares a sweet bitterness.

Odi et amo. Quare I'd faciam, fortasse requiris.

Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio. des fieri sentio et excrucior. I hate and I love. You may ask, why I do this. I do not know. But I sense that I do and it pains me.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Teaching of Maths and Science mean teaching of Truths; this teaching of natural truths is forbidden in Madrasa. In Quran the Sun revolves around the Earth even in 21st century!

Obviously it was meant to tell us nothing, which is exactly the opposite function of a book.

Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.

If they were right, there was an absence of conflict not only over the specific case of cosmology but, in principle, over anything else in which scientific and biblical statements appeared to be in contradiction. A "conflict thesis" would have seemed untenable because there was nothing to fight about.

Yet "change management," like "Scottish cuisine" and "man bun," is an oxymoron.

The connection path is different from the desperation path or the contradiction path.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

And I know it doesn't last for anything more than a second-----sometimes there is perfect understanding between two people who can't stand one another.

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

The ultimate paradox, of course, is that even though we're all going to die, we've all got to live in the meantime…

We're both clever and stupid in equal measure.

All good research scientists understand that] no position is unassailable. There are no absolute truth in science. Authority counts for nothing when contradicted by nature.

She was a whole girl made of two half girls, but wrongly made, of two of the same halves.

THERE ARE times in life when the wrong thing to do is actually the right thing to do. Maybe vice versa, too. I don't know. I haven't gotten around to testing that theory yet.

But. There's always a "but" in life, isn't there?

The sun shines in a bucket of water and doesn't get wet.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

I should have been shocked to see her. But I wasn't. After all, I'd thought, believed, that my mother was dead. I'd wanted her to be dead. And it was very much like my mother to be alive just to show me that what I had thought, believed, wanted, was wrong. "If you desperately want something," my mother wrote in her famous book, "then that is surely proof that you don't deserve to get what you want.

Love, love: it was never as pure as you needed it to be. That was the good thing about hate. If you hated someone, really hated him, then you could wish him dead and never once worry that you would change your mind about it.