Quotes About Contradiction

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach.

He's not a Republican, he's a Republican't.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Sometimes I feel like I'm going nowhere, in opposite directions.

We sow the seed of deadly nightshade and wish it to bear lilies and roses!

That leaves the allegation that atheists are humourless. There are atheist jokes. Here is a modest example. A Jewish atheist enrols his son in what he is told is the best school in town. The school is Catholic. All starts well. Then, one day, his son comes home and says: 'Today, I learned about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.' The father is furious. 'Steve, listen carefully. This is very important. There is only one God … and we do not believe in Him!

if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

I know what you are thinking about', said Tweedledum: 'but it isn't so, nohow.' 'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.

You know, in formal logic, an inconsistent set of axioms can be used to prove anything at all. Once you have a single contradiction, A and not A, there's nothing you can't derive from it.

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

Allander smiled. "Well, if he doesn't tell me nothing then he would, in fact, be telling me something. A double negative makes a positive. Your advice isn't concordant with your desires.

To recognize what is absurd and to accept it need not dim the eye for the tragic side of existence; quite on the contrary, in the end it may perhaps help in gaining a more tolerant view of the world.

All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Whatever it is, I'm against it.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.

Whatever it is, I'm against it.

He was the sort of guy who took a lot without giving her anything back The more he hurt her the more desperately she loved him. Life's strange. Sometimes things happen almost as if we're punishing ourselves for some fault that we can't really identify.

Poznajem samo jednu stvar koja je u isto vrijeme vrlo jednostavna i vrlo komplicirana.A to je? Ljubav.

I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.