Quotes about Contradiction
The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
— Watchman Nee
How can we bless at one moment and curse at another?
— Joni Eareckson Tada
I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
— Mae West
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?
— Lily Tomlin
It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
— Publilius Syrus
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
— John Donne
Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.
— Roland Allen
To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.
— Thomas Merton
"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is certain because it is impossible
— Tertullian
Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
— Thomas a Kempis