Best 256 quotes in «contradiction quotes» category

Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.

Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?

For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.

Everybody should have health care, on the one hand. But on the other hand, if you ask Americans, "Are you willing to pay for it?," they say no. So I've never been able to understand this contradiction.

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.

Holy War is a contradiction of 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

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

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.

Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.