A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
Contradict Quotes
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is complex.
The Church has realized that anything and everything can be built up on a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory or irreconcilable with it. The faithful will swallow it whole, so long as logical reasoning is never allowed to be brought to bear on it.
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction between profession and practice-that is to say with a strong feeling of guilt-are likely to be the most fervent in imposing their faith on others.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradict all you have said before.
The point is wider than just the Judaeo- Christian concept of God. No argument will get you from this world to a supernatural world. No reason will lead you to a world contradicting this one. No method of inference will enable you to leap from existence to a “super-existence.”
There is not in all the pulpits ingenuity enough to harmonize these ignorant and stupid contradictions.
