contradiction Quotes

“there is not a single one of those books which does not contradict some other book; so that by the time one has read them all one does not know what to think about anything.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”

― Voltaire, Candide

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“Having a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is the most common thing in the world.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

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“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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“Philosophers, that give themselves airs of superior wisdom and sufficiency, have a hard task when they encounter persons of inquisitive dispositions, who push them from every corner to which they retreat, and who are sure at last to bring them to...”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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“That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation, that it will rise.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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“It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.”

― Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs

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“Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder aloud how the snowplow driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the...”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

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“I like talking to a brick wall—it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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