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Quotes about Contradiction

We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.
- Barbara Kingsolver
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.
- Charles Dickens
I am two fools I know for loving and saying so.
- John Donne
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.
- John Henry Newman
Leave nothing to chance. Overlook nothing. Combine contradictory observations. Allow yourself enough time.
- Carl Sagan
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
- GK Chesterton
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
- GK Chesterton
Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.
- Herman Melville
People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.
- Paulo Coelho
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.
- Shane Claiborne
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.
- Ayn Rand
Do not expect consistency. Everything is a contradiction of everything else. Nothing exists but contradictions.
- Ayn Rand