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 | As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men. — Thomas Paine, 1737-1809, English-American writer 30 likes |
 | The weakest link in the chain is also the strongest. It can break the chain. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 19 likes |
 | Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 12 likes |
 | If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. — Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher 8 likes |
 | To hope is to contradict the future. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 6 likes |
 | Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 6 likes |
 | Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 5 likes |
 | Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion. — Aleister Crowley, 1875-1945, British magician & occultist, 5 likes |
 | Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 4 likes |
 | I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 4 likes |
 | Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 4 likes |
 | In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 4 likes |
 | When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 4 likes |
| Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes |
 | Junk is the stuff we throw away. Stuff is the junk we keep. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 3 likes |
 | Comical is the understanding of the contradiction. Humor is the suspicion for it. — Umberto Eco, 1932-2016, Italian writer 3 likes |
 | They were like two enemies in love with one another. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 3 likes |
 | Each American embassy comes with two permanent features: a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. — P.J. O’ Rourke, 1947-2022, American columnist & writer 3 likes |
 | We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. — Montesquieu, 1689-1755, French thinker 3 likes |
 | No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
 | “Free competition enforced by law” is a grotesque contradiction in terms. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 2 likes |
 | Only fools don't contradict themselves. — André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947 2 likes |
 | When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 1 likes |
 | Anything that just costs money is cheap. |
 | She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris. — Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer ‐ Madame Bovary |
 | You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims |
 | You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life. |
 | Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another. |
 | The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all. |
Quotes in Verse
 | Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large I contain multitudes. — Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet 2 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette? — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 13 likes |
 | I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly. — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 6 likes |
