Contradictory Quotations

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

If all creeds are equally true, then since they are contradictory to one another, they are all equally false, or at least equally uncertain.

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.

Yes, I know liberals are more empirical because Jonathan Chait says they are, but my empirical studies of liberal empiricism keep spitting out contradictory findings.

My father was a very contradictory man.

Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.

This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.

Things will happen that seem to be totally contradictory, but these are God's arrangements. It was a wonderful day when I finally realized I don't have to explained or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection

Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides . . . so now I have to guard myself against the extremists of both sides.

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.

Everything that is contradictory creates life