Quotes About Contradiction

I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.

The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

Everything in life is a double-edged sword.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

It annoys me that we glorify sex symbols one day and make them apologise the next.

The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all.

what do you do with a man who is supposed to be the holiest man who has ever lived and yet goes around talking with prostitutes and hugging lepers? What do you do with a man who not only mingles with the most unsavory people but actually seems to enjoy them? The religious accused him of being a drunkard, a glutton and having tacky taste in friends. It is a profound irony that the Son of God visited this planet and one of the chief complaints against him was that he was not religious enough.

a politician's capacity to ignore contradictory evidence

Since the survival impulse in nature is transmuted into two different and contradictory spiritualized forms, which we may briefly designate as the will-to-live-truly and the will-to-power, man is at variance with himself. The power of the second impulse places him more fundamentally in conflict with his fellowman than democratic liberalism realizes.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

La Grandeza existe; como mucho, coexiste. Su subtexto es que se joda el contexto.

Of all sexual aberrations perhaps the most curious is chastity.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

He exclaims, "Happy is the one not scandalized by me." There will be throughout Christian history a tendency of Christians themselves to choose Jesus as an alternative scandal, that is, a tendency to lose themselves and merge into the mob of persecutors. For St. Paul, consequently, the Cross is the scandal par excellence. I would observe that the symbolism of the traditional cross, the crossing of the two branches, renders visible the internal contradiction of the scandal. The

d'ailleurs nous ne pouvons nous empêcher de constater que, comme tous les propagandistes, les apôtres de la tolérance sont très souvent, en fait, les plus intolérants des hommes.

To speak of the 'properties of matter' while asserting at the same time that 'matter is inert' is an insoluble contradiction; and, by a strange irony, modern 'scientism', which claims to eliminate all 'mystery', nonetheless appeals in its vain attempts at explanation only to the very thing that is most 'mysterious' in the popular sense of the word, that is to say most obscure and least intelligible!

Du reste, il est à remarquer que les philosophes disent souvent des choses beaucoup plus justes quand ils argumentent contre d'autres philosophes que quand ils en viennent à exposer leurs propres vues, et chacun voyant généralement assez bien les défauts des autres, ils se détruisent en quelque sorte mutuellement

what I did, I didn't want

La vida duele pero es todo pero es nada pero es cierta.

You imagine you're kin to the stars. But the same sap that inflames you, freezes and splits you. And the older you grow, the deader at heart.

How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?

Where Christ erecteth his church, the devil in the same churchyard will have his chapel.

The conception of people acting against their own best interests should not startle us. We see it occasionally in sleep-walking and in politics, every day.

Love's passives are his activ'st part.The wounded is the wounding heart.