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Quotes about Contradiction

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
I'm not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there's a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time.
- Dolly Parton
Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.
- GK Chesterton
[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.
- GK Chesterton
I love watching keep-fit videos while munching chocolate chip cookies.
- Dolly Parton
Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!
- Virginia Woolf
Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'
- Albert Camus
I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.
- Lady Gaga
I love irony.
- Lydia Millet
In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
- Francis Schaeffer
There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you." This could be a drawing, in words, even a song. Just remember that the chances are good it will be full of paradox and contradictions.
- Brennan Manning
What is happening here is an unheard-of event: hurtful, offensive, and in radical contradiction to the most venerated tradition of the time. Kenneth Bailey, in his penetrating explanation of Luke's story, shows that the son's manner of leaving is tantamount to wishing his father dead.
- Henri Nouwen