Quotes about Contradiction

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?

Sounds crazy and counterintuitive, I know, but it is true.

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?' 'Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?

That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.

She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

Perhaps even atheism versus theism is an example of this principle that an apparent either/or can really be a both/and. For I suspect that the God you insist does not exist is probably a God I also insist does not exist; and perhaps the God I maintain does exist is a God you have never denied.

We think we want peace and silence and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this would be unendurable to us.

Sometimes what we think will make us happy is the opposite of what God wants for us.