Quotes about Contradiction

Some sort of perversity in our souls makes us not want, get away from, the very thing we want. We have to fight against that.

Because of the coexistence of sin and grace, we all shift between denying and affirming our humanity.

I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old.

The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: It exists in spite of its ministers."

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?

We are what we love. If we love God, in whose image we were created, we discover ourselves in him and we cannot help being happy: we have already achieved something of the fullness of being for which we were destined in our creation. If we love everything else but God, we contradict the image born in our very essence, and we cannot help being unhappy, because we are living a caricature of what we are meant to be.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

I am an atheist, thank God!