Quotes About Contradiction

Ground not upon dreams you know they are ever contrary.

why do men continue to practice in themselves, the absurdities they despise in others? Thomas Paine, The rights of man: being an answer to Mr Burke's attack on the French Revolution (2nd edn, Philadelphia, 1791), p. 41.

Revelation when applied to religion, means something communicated immediately from God to man. It is revelation to the first person only, and hearsay to every other, and, consequently, they are not obliged to believe it. It is a contradiction in terms and ideas to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second hand, either verbally or in writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication.

There may be many systems of religion that so far from being morally bad are in many respects morally good: but there can be but ONE that is true; and that one necessarily must, as it ever will, be in all things consistent with the ever existing word of God that we behold in his works. But such is the strange construction of the christian system of faith, that every evidence the heavens affords to man, either directly contradicts it or renders it absurd. It

Knowledge management is a great oxymoron.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Todo es doble, todo tiene dos polos; todo, su par de opuestos: los semejantes y los antagónicos son lo mismo; los opuestos son idénticos en naturaleza, pero diferentes en grado; los extremos se tocan; todas las verdades son medias verdades, todas las paradojas pueden reconciliarse.

Todo es doble; todo tiene dos polos; todo, su par de opuestos: los semejantes y los antagónicos son lo mismo; los opuestos son idénticos en naturaleza, pero diferentes en grado; los extremos se tocan; todas las verdades son semiverdades; todas las paradojas pueden reconciliarse. EL KYBALIÓN

I will miss you, he said, and his words was both honey and poison, sun and moon in the same sky.

My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.

Hey, Serge, I just realized that 'slow up' and 'slow down' mean the same thing. That's fucked.

And for those playing along at home, we have a new number one for the oxymoron files: death benefits.

I believe there's one rule in Hollywood, and that's that there are no rules.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.

No sense makes sense.

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

I like blending into the background. Its my job. Though I can be quite noisy and direct sometimes.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

I want to play a wife who cheats on her husband, or just a normal person who isn't an angel, because I am far from an angel.

Everyone goes To L.A. to be noticed. I went there to be completely invisible.

There was a time when 'universe' meant 'all there is.' Everything. The whole shebang. The notion of more than one universe, more than one everything, would seemingly be a contradiction in terms.

Daniel Bryan looks like he doesn't want the attention, but he does. He acts like he doesn't want the notoriety, but he does.