conflicting principles Quotes

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.

Contradiction is the essence of the universe.

The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

I'm an unpure purist, something like that.

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

Devil and God – two sides of the same face.

I can say that China has been cooperating with India to search for solutions. On some issues, it's a question of principles for them. On some issues, it's a question of principles for us. On some issues they differ with us and there are issues on which we differ with them. There are some basic differences. But the most important thing is that we can speak to China eye-to-eye and put forth India's interests in the most unambiguous manner.

Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together

The standard of the world, and the standard of the Lord Jesus, are indeed widely different. They are more than different. They are flatly contradictory one to the other.

A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.