Logical Inconsistency Quotes

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

Only fools don't contradict themselves

It is not only not right, it is not even wrong.

I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the things they do, people who can explain all their actions with perfect logical consistency. At least it's not possible for me to write that sort of novel.

That's not right. That's not even wrong.

Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?"

All views can't be true because all views are opposite; this is the logical aspect. For example, Islam says we are good in nature; Christianity says we are born in sin. Islam says God is a man; Christianity says He is more than a man, He is God. All truths can't be the same.

Paradox likes contradictions with exits.

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

The truth often sounds paradoxical.

Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".

Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

One individual doesn't really accept the pro-life position of the party, and the other... says he supports it and takes a position that is logically inconsistent.

We can know that the Christian God cannot exist. If he is all-powerful and all-good, as Christians maintain, there would not have been, for instance, the Holocaust. This is an inherent self-contradiction. So if Christians insist on having a God, they can do so, but if they have any respect for logic they'll have to redefine who he is.

What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.

Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

Careful economic analysis does have one important benefit, which is that it can help kill ideas that are completely logically inconsistent or wildly at variance with the data. This insight covers at least 90 percent of proposed economic policies

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Truth is what most contradicts itself.

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.