Quotes about Contradiction
The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: It exists in spite of its ministers."
— Heinrich Heine
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
— Lewis Carroll
We are what we love. If we love God, in whose image we were created, we discover ourselves in him and we cannot help being happy: we have already achieved something of the fullness of being for which we were destined in our creation. If we love everything else but God, we contradict the image born in our very essence, and we cannot help being unhappy, because we are living a caricature of what we are meant to be.
— Thomas Merton
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
— George Bernard Shaw
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
— George Bernard Shaw
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
— George Bernard Shaw
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
— George Bernard Shaw
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
— Isabel Allende
I am an atheist, thank God!
— Anonymous
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.
— Samuel Johnson
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The nearer the church, the further from God.
— Lancelot Andrewes