Consistency

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

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Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

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Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!

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A silly ass … wrote a paper to prove me inconsistent. … Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.

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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes.

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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

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The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

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Of right and wrong he taughtAnd (strange to tell) he practis'd what he preach'd.

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Tush! Tush! my lassie, such thoughts resigne,Wife Joan and goodman Robin.

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Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man:Sez he shall vote for Gineral C.

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Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

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