I’m a beautiful mess of contradiction,A chaotic display of imperfection.

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

I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals.” (10)

Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are. Even the dictionary has trouble accepting a paradox, calling it ‘two things that seem to be contradictory but may...

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

The universe is a contradiction; time a paradox.

Christians must show that misery fits the good for heaven, while happiness prepares the bad for hell; that the wicked get all their good things in this life, and the good all their evil; that...

The modern teachings of Christianity often preach of a peaceful, merciful, and loving God/Creator. Culturally, this concept of a God of peace is well liked and accepted amongst clergymen and the Christian community alike; however,...

«Linkeree does what he likes. He likes to be alone and think his own thoughts. No one is hurt by it.» Sara said, «Jason said that we are one people. Linkeree is saying he does...

La asesina porque lo lleva escrito en su sino, no hay más vuelta de hoja, solamente eso…

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it?‘Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto...

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kids.

You are the most ludicrous excuse for a man I’ve ever known – but there isn’t a centimetre of you that I don’t think is perfect.

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

One great thinker said one thing, another said another, and while the two thoughts are contradicting, the one that backs my argument at the moment is the superior statement.

I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress. Though so profound a...

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

They’re sharing a drink called loneliness, but at least its better than drinking alone.

4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in favor of novelty & singularity of opinion… shake off all the fears &...

Suppose, however, that God did give this law to the Jews, and did tell them that whenever a man preached a heresy, or proposed to worship any other God that they should kill him; and...

One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you are in a discipline, the less used to dialectical method you’re likely to be. In fact, young...

Each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In...

The fundamental basis by which the court’s decision might be made is, in itself, imperfect and subject to contradictions. There is very little consideration given to a priori knowledge regarding the circumstances being presented and...

…Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, and...

Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me — the fabled God of the three qualities of...

Plainly it is not every error made by a witness which affects his credibility. In each case the trier of fact has to make an evaluation; taking into account such matters as the nature of...

[Theology is a] web of contradictions and delusions.

How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I’d tumble it over.

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

Feminists who accept the claim made in The Book of Genesis, and, that God is a he, need to make their minds up.

When you feel hatred towards your life, hate it. See how it will actually do something to your life.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don’t understand us.

Like most people I am smarter than some, dumber than others, skinnier than most, and fatter than a few, but none was ever more confused than I was. I flew with confusion always parallel to...

I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured out.

Short men are happy, for they can pass easily through the door. Tall men are happy, for they can stand erect and pluck oranges with their hands. Again, short men are angry, for they cannot...

The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.The ocean is a place of skin, rich...

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it’s delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.

Now there are some, and I don’t just mean Communists like you, but thinking men of all political parties, who think that not many of these gods actually exist. Some believe that none of them...

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don’t want...

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

She said that my good qualities were my bad qualities — this I have come to realize is true of everyone. On the one hand, I was game, eager and perfectly ready to see what...

In the Christian religion, though perhaps not in any other, we frequently find a conception of god that is selfcontradictory and therefore corresponds to nothing. That is the conception formed by the following three propositions...

now” in knowledge. Well, I will put it there, probably tomorrow or tomorrow’s tomorrow.

In order for a god to be all-knowing, he must know even the fact of his own omniscience. But can he do this? He may know the totality of facts constituting the world; call this...

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.