Quotes about Contradiction
Law—our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law.
- Frank Herbert
In fact, I've met countless believers who have said, "The church is an organism, not an organization." Yet as they formed those very words, they continued to be devout members of churches that were organized along the lines of General Motors and Microsoft.
- Frank Viola
I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
- Anais Nin
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
- Samuel Johnson
APODICTICAL (APODI'CTICAL) adj.[from evident truth; demonstration.]Demonstrative; evident beyond contradiction. Holding an apodictical knowledge, and an assured knowledge of it; verily, to persuade their apprehensions otherwise, were to make Euclid believe, that there were more than one centre in
- Samuel Johnson
If that be simply perfectest Which can by no way be expresst But negatives, my love is so. To All, which all love, I say no. Negative Love
- John Donne
The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
- Ayn Rand
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
- Albert Camus
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.
- Oscar Wilde
Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
- GK Chesterton
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.
- Paul Ricoeur