Quotes About Contradiction

I am the best tennis player who cannot play tennis.

And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it!

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.

I'm always right, always wrong. Dressing bad's like loving you there is nothing i haven't worn. Nothing, I haven't said before. You are nothing I haven't felt before.

It's a shame cars don't run on cognitive dissonance.

None of us is okay and all of us are fine. It's not just one way. We are walking, talking paradoxes.

People bitch like lunatics but are Nazis nonetheless.

The occupiers spend much of their time drunk or stoned. They squabble incessantly, contradicting themselves from one day to the next. They live parasitically, depending on the farm for their survival even as they destroy it. Their behavior plays to every colonial prejudice about the chaos and hopelessness of Africa.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, I am. We are ontological oxymorons.

Perhaps even atheism versus theism is an example of this principle that an apparent either/or can really be a both/and. For I suspect that the God you insist does not exist is probably a God I also insist does not exist; and perhaps the God I maintain does exist is a God you have never denied.

To undo a contradiction, make a distinction.

these relativists turn out to be not relativistic at all about one thing: their relativism. That's their one nonnegotiable absolute.

Well, he was scarcely a parfit gentil knight; as Wolfie said, he looked like some Hollywood Geronimo trying to kick a ninety-dollar habit.

Love is both wonderful and foolish.

La creencia de que existen los animales porque Dios los creó - y que los creó para que podamos responder mejor a nuestras necesidades - es contraria a nuestra comprensión científica de la evolución y, por supuesto, a los registros fósiles, que demuestran la existencia de primates no-humanos y otros animales millones de años antes de que hubiera seres humanos en absoluto».

Yes, he admitted to himself for the thousandth time, he did like it here. It went against his principles and his politics and probably the puritanism of his long-vanished religion too, but Sears's library – Sears's whole splendid house – was a place where a man felt at ease.

Even the slang of the time – 'Isn't it killing' – had an inbuilt and not entirely unconscious irony.

But to grieve; it's to die and be alive at the same time.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.

He should have that chilled but somehow enthusiastic look, as if he believed in nothing and yet somehow had absolute faith.

Emily Dickinson was full of shit when she prattled about "kindly Death"; that's an abominable thought, that death is kind. She never saw a six-car pile-up on the Eastshore Freeway.

It sounds like they're saying passive life is good, he thought. But there is no such thing as passive life. That's a contradiction.