{"quotes":[{"text":"The ‘fact’ of my actions frequently collide with the ‘fiction’ of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["actions","collide","collision","contradict","contradictory","dishonest","distort","distortion","ethical","fact","fiction","honest","honesty","integrity","lies","manipulate","manipulation","moral","truth","words"],"id":22695,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who cares?’.","author":"Tony Schwartz","tags":["alternative-facts","compulsive-liar","contradiction","contradictory","deceit","donald-trump","donald-trump","grandiosity","hyperbole","liar","lies","lying","lying-to-others","pathological-liar","self-aggrandizing","self-deception","truthful-hyperbole"],"id":34486,"author_id":"Tony+Schwartz"},{"text":"Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their lives holding similar contradictory thoughts about their parents. They were raised to learn about love and death, and they lived out their lives passing from the sunny spots to the shady spots of this world.","author":"Otsuichi","tags":["children","contradictions","contradictory","death","epiphany","gratitude","human-nature","humanity","insight","love","love-and-death","love-and-loss","parents","parents-and-children","resentment","spots","sunny","world"],"id":48360,"author_id":"Otsuichi"},{"text":"Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["accept","acceptance","acknowledge","balance","character","consciousness","contradiction","contradictions","contradictory","contrary","different","ego","embrace","eternal","eternally","existence","find","find-yourself","forget","found","give-in","identity","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","let-go","life","life","look","looking","lose","lose-yourself","lost","make","oppose","opposites","opposition","paradox","remember","search","searching","seek","seeking","self","surrender","truth","yin-and-yang","yin-yang","yourself"],"id":108405,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have the ability to contemplate the question of ‘random happenstance’ with such methodical complexity?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["chance","complex","complexity","contemplate","contradictory","creation","creationism","evolution","evolutionary","god","happenstance","illogical","methodical","odd","opposed","opposite","random","randomness"],"id":119743,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it is of the nature of an alibi that is here attempted to be proved, namely, the absence of a dead body by supernatural means,) and had they given their evidence in the same contradictory manner as it is here given, they would have been in danger of having their ears cropt for perjury, and would have justly deserved it. Yet this is the evidence, and these are the books, that have been imposed upon the world as being given by divine inspiration, and as the unchangeable word of God.","author":"Thomas Paine","tags":["alibi","contradictory","court","divine-inspiration","evidence","proof","resurrection","resurrection-of-christ","supernatural","word-of-god"],"id":152452,"author_id":"Thomas+Paine"},{"text":"When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.","author":"Stevie Nicks","tags":["contradictory","equality","feminism","gender-norm","inspirational","social-norm"],"id":187178,"author_id":"Stevie+Nicks"},{"text":"No one could have imagined a place like Havana, Cuba. It is absurdly contradictory, always arguing with itself over whether it is audacious or meek, heroic or stupid, beautiful or abhorrent.","author":"Ed Kirwan","tags":["beautiful","contradictory","cuba","havana","heroic"],"id":204356,"author_id":"Ed+Kirwan"},{"text":"Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'. ","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["aphorisms","banal","bane","clever","cliche","contradictory","dullness","existence","experience","facts","fruit","funny","funny-but-true","humor","intelligence","ironic","knowledge","lesson","life","morality","originality","overused","paradoxical","platitudes","pop","pop-culture","popular-culture","pure","quotations","quotes","ripe","sayings","trite","truth","unique","unoriginality","wisdom","witty"],"id":235849,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The curious double strands in Farfrae's thread of life - the commercial and the romantic - were very distinct at times. Like the colours in a variegated cord those contrasts could be seen intertwisted, yet not mingling.","author":"Thomas Hardy","tags":["contradictory","contrasting","farfrae","metaphor","the-mayor-of-casterbridge","thomas-hardy"],"id":239389,"author_id":"Thomas+Hardy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}