Quotes about Contradiction
The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.
— St. Augustine
Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I'm not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there's a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time.
— Dolly Parton
Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.
— GK Chesterton
[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.
— GK Chesterton
I love watching keep-fit videos while munching chocolate chip cookies.
— Dolly Parton
Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!
— Virginia Woolf
Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'
— Albert Camus
I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.
— Lady Gaga
I love irony.
— Lydia Millet
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.
— Francis Schaeffer
There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you." This could be a drawing, in words, even a song. Just remember that the chances are good it will be full of paradox and contradictions.
— Brennan Manning