Quotes About Contradiction

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

How in this world can we put a man on the moon, and still have a need for a place like St. Judes?

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.

Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.