Contradiction Quotes · Page 10

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

— Gore Vidal

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

— Gore Vidal

Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.

— Allen W. Wood

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.

— Vivienne Westwood

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.

— Gwen Stefani

“The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.”

— Barry Unsworth

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

— Anonymous

It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to…

— Lev Grossman

“The idea that there is some kind of contradiction between the in-depth study of God’s Word, so as to know what God…

— James Robert White

“What men call chance is simply their ignorance of causes; if the statement that something had happened by chance were to mean…

— René Guénon

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult…

— Doris Lessing

“There was supervised recreation. This is the original contradiction of terms. It was for making suggestions about supervised recreation that the devil…

— R.A. Lafferty

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without…

— Immanuel Kant

The Patriotic Front is two organisations under a banner, and we cannot create one party overnight. It takes time. Even if we…

— Robert Mugabe

Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious…

— Steven Weinberg

Brands are faced with the daily challenge of massively scaling their outreach in order to build personal relationships. While this may seem…

— Simon Mainwaring

The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence.…

— Thomas Merton

I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is…

— Hannah More

“What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or…

— Euripides

Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures…

— Pipilotti Rist

I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey,…

— Jonathan Mayhew

No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive…

— Terence McKenna

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

— Thomas Hardy

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.

— Giancarlo Esposito

I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things.

— Nicolas Cage

There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.

— Ayn Rand

To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.

— G. Campbell Morgan

The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.

— Amy Dickinson

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

— William E. Simon

I'm nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.

— Glennon Doyle Melton

It is a contradiction to be a true Christian and not humble.

— Richard Baxter

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

— William Blake

“You impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now?” I”

— Naomi Novik

As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.

— Janette Rallison

I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need…

— Billy Collins

I'm a walking contradiction on so many levels. I'm gay, black, and a Christian.

— Tituss Burgess

Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon