Quotes about Contradiction

We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.

I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.

I am two fools I know for loving and saying so.

I am speaking of University Education, which implies an extended range of reading, which has to deal with standard works of genius, or what are called the classics of a language: and I say, from the nature of the case, if Literature is to be made a study of human nature, you cannot have a Christian Literature. It is a contradiction in terms to attempt a sinless Literature of a sinful man.

Leave nothing to chance. Overlook nothing. Combine contradictory observations. Allow yourself enough time.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

How ironic is it to see a bumper sticker that says 'Jesus is the answer' next to a bumper sticker supporting the war in Iraq, as if to says 'Jesus is the answer - but not in the real world.

You're the most egotistical and the kindest man I know. And that doesn't make sense." "Maybe the concepts don't make sense. Maybe they don't mean what people have been taught to think they mean.

Do not expect consistency. Everything is a contradiction of everything else. Nothing exists but contradictions.