In all men lie the greatest of contradictions.

If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise…

— Umberto Eco

“One of the things about Ike that makes him so indisputably a hero is that he doesn't leave his own contradictions to the effete…

— Mark Leyner

Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that's something I adhere to in my life and work.

— Jade Bird

“A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough...…

— Voltaire

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

— David Harvey

“ If "If freckles were lovely, and day was night, And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie, Life would be delight,--…

— E.E. Cummings

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

— George Santayana

I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the…

— Hilary Mantel

We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs…

— Arthur Machen

“Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to share guilt…

— Steve Aylett

The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and…

— Vladimir Lenin

There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ''the…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

— Muriel Spark

I've realized that life is indeed full of contradictions. Sometimes its crazy to be sane.You need to fall to fly. People suffer because you…

— Anonymous

:)So Micayla didn't quite understand the meaning of the word paradox, so like most things I struggle to understand or make sense of I…

— Micayla Ludick Basson