Quotes About Contradiction

If asked whether you love God, say nothing. This is because if you say, 'I do not love God,'you are an unbeliever. If, on the other hand, you say, 'I do love God,' your actions contradict you.

For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are fighting actually with external nature, and if we are defeated, our life has to go.

A perfect life is a contradiction in terms.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time -- what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.

The worse things are, the more they play philosopher. The more obvious the nonsense, the profounder their thoughts. The more lawlessness there is, the more laws. The more widespread the chaos, the more insistent their love of symmetry.

U was zawsze ironia i ironia.

I don't want to live in a world where I have to eat sugar-free sugar cookies.

Modern sovereignty, whether expressed through killing in battle or the torture of suspects, brings together the desire to build up and the desire to destroy, to let Aid Agencies offer charity (in its original meaning of "love") while the military offers death. The two are intrinsically connected.

Apostates have hinted that I'm the ill-begotten daughter of Medusa and the Marquis de Sade. As against these slanders there are the hymns of my champions, equally inaccurate, that I'm a fusion of Annie Laurie, Bopeep, Florence Nightingale and whichever waif Lillian Gish played in The Orphans of the Storm. Somewhere in between these contrary verdicts lies the truth.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.

Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.

You can knock down a genuine belief, if you load up with enough facts that contradict it; but a belief that's built on nothing except who the person wants to be, nothing can crumble that.

People are complicated. When you're a little kid, you don't realize, you think people are just one thing; but then you get older, and you realize it's not that simple. Chris wasn't that simple. He was cruel and he was kind. And he didn't like realizing that. It bothered him, that he wasn't just one thing. I think it made him feel . . .

There is a side of me that is most intensely attracted to women who annoy me.

It's lovely. I hate it.

I may not be confident or ambitious but at least I'm not confident and ambitious