Quotes About Contradiction

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.

Photons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic.

How can a God who said, "Love your enemies" spend so much time killing His own?

All the good things a man can do for a woman is against her religion

The First Amendment contradicts the First Commandment.

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It's very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

I might look like a tough chick - and I am - but I'm also a hopeless romantic inside.

I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.

No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.

How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd.

Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."

I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.

I agree about Shaw -- he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

But why is it that within me "I don't want to" and "I want to" stand side by side? That is the chief horror of the matter; I continue to long for that happy death of yesterday. The horror of it is that even now, when I have integrated the logical function, when it becomes evident that that function contains death hidden within it, still I long for it with my lips, my arms, my heart, with every millimeter....

Great Benefactor! How absurd- to want pain! Can there be anyone who doesn't know that pain is a negative quality, and that if you add them up it reduces the sum we call happiness? so it follows... But...nothing follows. The slate is clean. Naked.

Is it possible that that insanity called love and jealousy does exist, and not only in the idiotic books of the ancients? What seems most strange is that I, I! … Equations, formulae, figures, and suddenly this! I can't understand it, I can't!

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded.

Yogi Berra said "If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

He's the polar opposite of an auction.

Ever since the French Revolution, people throughout the world have gradually come to see both equality and individual freedom as fundamental values. Yet the two values contradict each other. Equality can be ensured only by curtailing the freedoms of those who are better off.

life sciences doubt the existence of soul not just due to lack of evidence, but rather because the very idea of soul contradicts the most fundamental principles of evolution. This

Still, humans have a wonderful capacity to believe in contradictions.