Quotes About Contradiction

What a magnificent race of creatures, he thought, that could build an airport on top of a sailing ship. But what a wretched one that mainly used it to bomb one another back into the Stone Age…

Everybody hates you and that`s why I love you.

It was the first presidential instance of what the campaign regulars had learned over many months: on the most basic level, Trump just did not, as Spicer later put it, give a fuck. You could tell him whatever you wanted, but he knew what he knew, and if what you said contradicted what he knew, he simply didn't believe you.

And that evening, the president traveled to West Virginia to deliver a speech before the Boy Scouts of America. Once more, his speech was totally at odds with time, place, and good sense. It prompted an immediate apology from the Boy Scouts to its members, their parents, and the country at large.

Ironically, while modern-day Islam rejects the Gospel accounts as corrupt, the Koran itself commands Muslims to read the Injeel—that is, the Gospel accounts of the life of Jesus.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

I find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.

I didn't even want to fuck her, or maybe I kind of wanted to fuck her but I also kind of wanted to die, I couldn't really tell.

La liberté, à titre personnel, j'étais plutôt contre; il est amusant de constater que ce sont toujours les adversaires de la liberté qui se trouvent, à un moment ou à un autre, en avoir le plus besoin.

Il faut être un crétin pour se définir comme un nietzschéen de gauche.

A code resembled a coin with two sides, heads and tails, which were contradictory: both accessible and secret.

How do you keep doing that, Ford Winter? she wanted to ask. Have me swallowing back a lump in my throat one minute... And rolling my eyes the next.

How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing

I've quickly grown fond of you. Despite the fact that you hate my guts and sometimes you're a bit of a bitch. I guess I find that oddly attractive.

I really hate you sometimes." "There's a fine line between love and hate." I glared at him. "Dream on.

The puzzle for psychology is how people maintain views of the world that are contrary to the evidence. Why, for example, is the USA both a powerhouse of science and scientific discovery, while at the same time it demonstrates a rapid growth in fundamentalist religious sects that deny or distort the very evidence that science presents?

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.

Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Y a las veces su carácter será el de no tenerlo

A man who succeeded in never contradicting himself was to be strongly suspected of never saying anything at all.

Respeto ... Respeto ... El respeto excluye el cariño. - Eso creerás tú ... ¡Hombre al fin!

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.