Quotes about Contradiction

They were like two enemies in love with one another.

Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

They grow the fruit, But eat the rind

I like how it presented this contradiction because traditionally gay people have been shut out from the church, so 'Sanctify' was claiming a bit of that back and saying, 'My sexuality is holy.'

Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.

Double-mindedness means the faculty of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind and accepting both of them. We talk out of both corners of our mouths at once.

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.