Quotes About Contradiction

The urge to excel and the urge to lead aren't the same. Sometimes I think they may be opposites.

The urge to excel and the urge to lead aren't the same. Sometimes I think they may be opposites.

but economists were still very skilled at ignoring outside criticisms of their field, and now they forged on contradicting themselves as confidently as ever.

It can be nice and still be a prison.

Only a stupid person would say that. Well, and yet I've just said it. Yes.

The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality.

When I'm with you I feel faintly anxious, judged, inadequate. Not the kind of person you like, which I find offensive, and thus behave more like that part of me than ever. Though I want your good opinion too, but that desire I find irritating, and so contradicted in myself. Why should I care? You don't care. And yet you do care. I love you, you said. And she wanted him to feel that way when he was with her.

cuando un cálculo confirma las propias expectativas, uno simplemente se reafirma un poco en su comprensión intuitiva de las leyes de la física. Pero cuando un cálculo contradice las expectativas, uno está en el camino hacia una nueva intuición.

The sad rocking chair in the corner was actually a joke of a chair: if one started laughing at it, one could die laughing. It was too low for a grown man, and besides, it was so tight, one needed a shoehorn to get back out of it. In short, this room was simply not furnished in a way appropriate to intellectual effort, and I did not intend to keep it any longer.

Io ridevo, ridevo e mi battevo sulle ginocchia, ridevo come un invasato. E non un suono mi usciva dalla gola, la mia risata era tisica e silenziosa, mi sgorgava dal cuore come un pianto.

The virgin was seducing the seductress!

You have no tongue yet you won't shut up

Portia's lips thinned. You think that because we're pure evil, we can't love? I think that because you love, you can't be pure evil, Nix countered.

You knew I'd say I'd protect you? And that vexes you? Should I have said that you're shite out of luck and all on your own, but thanks for the hot fuck!

The light gave him hope but he was afraid of it too.

Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.