Quotes About Contradiction

Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.

There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa."

The aphorist sees in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things.The honest thief, the tender murderer,The superstitious atheist, demirepThat loves and saves her soul in new French books.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud.

Never and forever are usually neither

Political beliefs, religious beliefs, and conspiratorial beliefs seem impenetrable to facts that contradict them.

Si tienes una cara dulce y un aire inocente, emite indicios de algo oscuro, e incluso vagamente cruel, en tu carácter.

An emphatic trait often conceals it's opposite

Truly creative people in all fields can temporarily suspend their ego and simply experience what they are seeing, without the need to assert a judgment, for as long as possible. They are more than ready to find their most cherished opinions contradicted by reality.

One could never be sure with Oliver. Ambition and godliness, self-interest and the higher cause, the base metal entwined with the gold.

How shall the mind keep warm save at spectral fires--how thrive but by the light of paradox?

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Apparently Blank thinks I am a nice accommodating guy, please explain to him that I am a son of a bitch

Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess

A woman would do a thing until you were sure she always would, then do something else just to fuddle you.

The moon by day the sun by night, deaf woman, blind men, jackdaw fool, let the lord of Chaos rule.

It was about a hero who insisted with every breath that he was anything but a hero.