Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Contradict Quotes
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.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
These contradictions are gross and palpable and demonstrate that the New Testament is not inspired, and that many of its statements must be false.
For myself, I am never satisfied that I have handled a subject properly till I have contradicted myself at least three times.
He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.
That truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
