Quotes About Contradiction

The wisest of the wicked schemes are actually foolish.

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.

McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

It must be wonderful sport to contradict each other.

I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it.

My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.

La idea de crear una sociedad pacífica por medio de un conflicto armado parecía estar irremediablemente condenada al fracaso por su misma contradicción.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

I didn't kill that man and if you say I did I'll deny everything.

Jeder intelligente Narr kann Dinge größer und komplexer machen. Es braucht ein Stück Genialität – und jede Menge Mut -, sich in die entgegengesetzte Richtung zu bewegen.

Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science?

Question: What is a scientific author? Answer: A cross between a mimosa and a porcupine.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, writhing was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.

Nature, or anything that reminds me of nature, disturbs me; it is too large, too complicated, above all too utterly pointless and incomprehensible.

Simplicity is no virtue unless you are potentially complicated.

I am I, and wish I wasn't.

If you're a human being, you'll be seeing something of both, because we've always wanted things both ways.

That horrible Benito Hoover! And yet the man had meant well enough. Which only made it, in a way, much worse. Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

The unpleasantness of life in the utopia