Quotes About Contradiction

I'm inconsistent, even to myself.

The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

So when we have no other objective than ourselves, we cannot escape from the feeling our efforts are finally destined to vanish into nothing, since that is where we must return. But we recoil from the idea of annihilation. In such a state, we should not have the strength to live, that is to say to act and struggle, since nothing is to remain of all the trouble that we take. In a word, the state of egoism is in contradiction with human nature and hence too precarious to endure.

There was no stopping us now. We had running water, a heater, a cooker and a road. We were fast becoming slaves again to all the things we had come to this benighted spot to flee.

What a puzzle you are to me, Jander Sunstar! You feed upon lifeblood, yet mourn the life you take. You are a being of shadow and night, yet you yearn to be surrounded by beauty. You are dead, but you cannot bear decay. What exactly are you? You can hardly be a vampire!

If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain.

He was such a mixture, tough as nails and lethal, but with her, unfailingly a gentleman, tender and sweet, looking out for her so carefully.

He poured his feelings into the kiss, fire and ice, love and regret, joy and bitterness. Everything he had to give her.

And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.

Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.

The most intense wars are civil wars, just as the most vivid and rending personal conflicts are internal ones, and what I hope to do now is give some idea of what it is like to fight on two fronts at once, to try and keep opposing ideas alive in the same mind, even occasionally to show two faces at the same time.

The life of an oppositionist is supposed to be difficult.) I

Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake. We do not hold our convictions dogmatically:

The gramophone keeps reiterating a statement about life with which I do not agree.

Goodness is beauty in its best mistake

Love is not full of pity (as men say)/ But deaf and cruel where he means to prey. (Hero and Leander, 771–72)

Jealousy makes you feel bad, but God is jealous, so it must be good. Yet when a dog licks its balls it seems to enjoy it, but it must be bad under the law.

He tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.

But I have known many women--many women indeed, and it is in their nature to confound us, Othello. They are all by their natures lovely lunatics.

Nobody's perfect…. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him. ANONYMOUS

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him...." ? Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal