I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.
Truths may clash without contradicting each other.
When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.
A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.
But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.
A man without words is a man without thought.
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
However, he also trusted me to make my own decisions. Contradicting me or telling me what to do wasn't in his nature - even though he secretly may have wanted to.
Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.
Twitter is about creating whatever persona you want to create and either sticking with it or changing it or evolving it or contradicting it, and I've done all that stuff.
God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They explain in various ways that a great many people will be saved without believing, and that eternal damnation is not eternal nor damnation.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
I don’t have any mottoes. If I did I would forever be contradicting them.
The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there.
I think often if people don't have a lot of experience with a particular type of person or a particular type of brain, they can make dangerous assumptions. That's one of the reasons that I'm so interested in contradicting and troubling held thoughts about black women.
You get what you pay for.
Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.
I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop
If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.
