Contradiction Quotes

Faith and reason overpower each other throughout one's life, which results in contradiction, but the conflict never ceases in any sphere.

We need a science to save us from science.

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Intersectionality creates a pecking order with blacks, Muslims, and LGBTs on top and whites, East Asians and Jews on the bottom. The result is a zany coalition in which gay-hating Islamic supremacists and gay intersectionality devotees go to the same demonstrations, and groups emerge that sound like parodies, such as Queers for Palestine.

When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

Not to act is to act. Not to speak is to speak.

I must follow them. I am their leader.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

You can and you can't You will and you won't You'll be damned if you do You'll be damned if you don't

Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity.

There are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.

No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?

Steve Jobs is considered an amazing genius and made billions of dollars. Sure, we overlook that he didn't pay his share of taxes and didn't believe in charity. But other than these occasional rumblings of dissent, he is pretty much held in high esteem.

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

The upholders of Capitalism are dreamers and visionaries who, instead of doing good with evil intentions do evil with the best intentions.