Best 256 quotes in «contradiction quotes» category

Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms.

God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is nothing but a mass of contradictions.

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

How can you expect me to be perfect...when I am full of contradictions.

Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.

If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.

If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.

If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

I'm aware that I'm kind of a paradox, and at times a bit ill-suited to my profession. But there's something that brings me back. There's something in me that feels like I have to do this, that this is what I'm meant to be doing. If I didn't feel this way, I wouldn't do it. But it's full of contradictions, for sure.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

In our inherent contradictions as humans, and in order to validate our own pain, we deny the pain of others. But it is in acknowledging the pain of others that we achieve fully our humanity.

Isn’t everyone’s life a mass of contradictions?

I see a bit of a contradiction between the fight against the Islamic State and the desire to remove the Assad regime. And even if you work with Russia, I'm just not sold that working with Russia is an effective way to hasten the end of the Assad regime or to enact any type of punitive measures.

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.

I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.

I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.

It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.

It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.

Jesus said that I am the only way. So it is illogical to say all religions are true, but it is not illogical to say all religions are false. All religion could be false but they can't all be true because there are direct logical contradictions.

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

Love is a contradiction.

Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence.

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

Massive immigration brings with it cultures that are sometimes in contradiction with our values.