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Quotes About Contradiction

The only consistency in the way humans think about animals is inconsistency.
~ Hal Herzog
I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic.
~ Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon
I love humanity, surprisingly, as I observe 21st century with hawk eyed vision, I realize the more I love humanity the less I love Human as an individual.
~ Ankita Singhal
Human being is the only creature I found ho does everything he is not suppose to do.
~ Srinivas Shenoy
When you hate someone it means you like it.
~ Rida Noor
It was great to see the owls, " I said.She smiled."Yes. They're wild things, of course. Killers, savages. They're wonderful.
~ David Almond, Skellig
My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.
~ Mark Twain
Mothering Oxymoron: Reminding the kids to not talk with food in their mouths, yet I have food in my mouth while trying to correct them in the moment.
~ Mommy Moo Moo
True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.
~ Robert E. Lee
The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.
~ Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
~ John Lennon
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
~ George Carlin
I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
~ Siobhan Fahey
Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who preach god, need god Those who preach peace do not have peace Those who preach love do not have love
~ Charles Bukowski
To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.
~ Noel Gallagher
Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.
~ Swami Vivekananda
One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin.
~ Fred Schwab
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.
~ Randy Travis
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
~ William James
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
~ Wallace Stevens