Quotes About Contradiction

You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger!

George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.

Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.

Nature is usually wrong.

My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

To me, Mother Nature isn't nearly as scary as human nature.

I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.

Of course I contradict myself. Why else would I often bite my tongue and attempt to put the fire out?

Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.

Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity