Quotes About Contradiction

A misanthrope hates all mankind, but is kind to everybody, generally too kind. A philanthrope loves the whole human race, but dislikes his wife, his mother, his brother, and his friends and acquaintances. Misanthrope is the potato, — rough and repulsive outside, but good to the core. Philanthrope is a peach, — his manner all velvet and bloom, and his words sweet juice, but his heart of hearts a stone.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Typical of the limitations, even the contradictions of life, is the fact that what is most worth having can often only be had at the peril of life itself.

For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong

I maintain that (as usual) many sides exist to this issue rather than only two. Two-sided issues (creationism vs darwinism, "choice" vs "pro-life," etc.) are all without exception delusions , spectacular lies.

When the Bible says black, I say white. When it says good, I say evil. When it says Behold, Jehovah is a God of Light, I say, Behold, He is the Lord of dark places, for his children gnash their teeth and cry unto him and are not heard.

I'm half of everything I hate, and half of everything I create.

Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

Între Socrate È™i Hristos exist?, în punctul decisiv, numai contradicÈ›ie, pentru c? Socrate nu poate decât s? indice adev?rul care nu este el, în timp ce Hristos este Adev?rul È™i prin urmare poate s?-l comunice prin Sine ÎnsuÈ™i.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

Nothing was wrong, except that nothing was wrong.

Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.

real life is complicated, messy, unquantifiable, contextual, full of paradoxes and contradictions.

Famous for my ignorance, me.

Aber vielleicht war es das alles zugleich, unter Vernachlässigung des Gesetzes des ausgeschlossenen Dritten und zur ewigen Beschämung derjenigen, die glaubten, etwas davon zu verstehen.

Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other...

Man is an intellectual animal, therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two without the possibility of its ever being otherwise. A mere physical being or a pure spirit can alone be satisfied with itself.

Don't you find any irony in a vampire sucking up?

Live and everyone would die. Die and everyone would live. It seemed like such a simple choice. But nothing is ever as simple as it seems.

Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?

Yet this chirpy insistence on positivity has a strange way of enhancing the dread and anxiety and melancholy that lie just beneath the surface of things.

Contrary to popular wisdom, growing older does not make you less conflicted. In fact, you become more and more conflicted by the second. You can see all sides of any given thing. It's all stupid bullshit and you want all of it, everything, and you also want none of it,