quotes about Contradiction
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If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.
-- Ai Yazawa -
Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.
-- Alastair Reynolds -
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Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.
-- Anne Michaels -
I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
-- Antonio Tabucchi -
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
-- Audre Lorde -
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
-- Ayn Rand -
The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
-- Ayn Rand -
I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.
-- Ba JinSource : "Living legend: Ba Jin". www.newsgd.com. November 26, 2003.
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One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
-- Barry LopezSource : "In 'Sliver Of Sky,' Barry Lopez Confronts Childhood Sexual Abuse". 'Fresh Air' with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 10, 2013.
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The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures
-- Carl Braaten -
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A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.
-- Chaim Potok -
I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.
-- Clive Barker -
I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy
-- Czeslaw Milosz -
I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.
-- Czeslaw Milosz -
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Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.
-- David Brion DavisSource : David Brion Davis (2008). “Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World”, p.6, Oxford University Press
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The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.
-- David HarveySource : "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.
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There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.
-- David Harvey -
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Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.
-- David Lilienthal -
A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.
-- David SheffSource : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.
-- Duane Michals -
We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.
-- Edward TellerSource : "Science and Morality". Science, Vol. 280, (p. 1200), 1998.
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No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
-- Elie Wiesel -
There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.
-- Eliezer YudkowskySource : "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, February 28, 2010 - March 14, 2015.
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Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
-- Eric HobsbawmSource : "Mapping the Nation". Book edited by Gopal Balakrishnan and Benedict Anderson, 1996.
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There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.
-- Evan Parker -
Contradiction is the essence of the universe.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions.
-- Fritjof Capra -
To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.
-- G. Campbell Morgan -
So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.
-- Gayle Forman -
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Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.
-- Genrich Altshuller -
To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions
-- George Orwell -
There were a lot of contradictions between Marcello's[ Mastroianni] public persona and who he was in private. The fact that Italy chose to incarnate him as a model of beauty stupefied him.
-- Giovanna CauSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not...
-- Graham Chapman -
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I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is the only person with whom one dares to talk continually of oneself, without interruption, contradiction or censure; I suppose that delightful immunity doubles their fees.
-- Hannah More -
An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms
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You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms.
-- Israel ShahakSource : "An Interview with Israel Shahak", Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. IV, No. 3, p. 3, 1975.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
-- J. L. Austin -
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Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God.
-- James MacDonald -
As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.
-- Janette Rallison -
If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
-- Joan D. Vinge -
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The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.
-- Joan Miro -
Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann -
What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.
-- John BurdettSource : "HiSo society". www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2005.
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Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset -
We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it.
-- Joshua Ferris -
Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
-- Jules Michelet -
The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.
-- Kedar Joshi -
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A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.
-- Lawrence KushnerSource : Lawrence Kushner (2010). “I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego”, p.150, Jewish Lights Publishing
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We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.
-- Lisa Lutz -
In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.
-- Matt DillonSource : "New Again: Matt Dillon". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan and Genevieve Glass, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2013.
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A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
-- Max Beerbohm -
I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.'
-- Michel GondrySource : Source: www.motherjones.com
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Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes ...
-- Muriel SparkSource : Muriel Spark (2014). “Loitering with Intent”, p.16, New Directions Publishing
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It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
-- Neil Postman -
Isn’t everyone’s life a mass of contradictions?
-- Noah Feldman -
We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.
-- Nursultan Nazarbayev -
I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth
-- Patti Smith -
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What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.
-- Paul HaggisSource : Source: collider.com
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Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.
-- Paul Ricoeur -
You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.
-- Paul Schrader -
Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
-- Paulo FreireSource : Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.
-- Paulo Freire -
Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence.
-- Peter Deunov -
I always look for contradiction in a character.
-- Rebecca HallSource : "Rebecca Hall Talks PARADE’S END, Her Extreme Character, How Invigorating the Role Was, Working with Benedict Cumberbatch and IRON MAN 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 24, 2013.
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Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?
-- Richard Baxter -
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It is a contradiction to be a true Christian and not humble.
-- Richard Baxter -
Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.
-- Richard KadreySource : Richard Kadrey (2015). “Butcher Bird”, p.240, Booklassic
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Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.
-- Richard SavageSource : Richard Savage, Thomas Park (1807). “The Poetical Works of Richard Savage: Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.129
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It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.
-- Richey Edwards -
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Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms.
-- Richie Benaud -
A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.
-- Rick Warren -
There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.
-- Robert Breault -
It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being
-- Sergei EisensteinSource : Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions.
-- Shams Tabrizi -
The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.
-- Sigmund Freud -
Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions.
-- Steven Saylor -
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the job description, Mr. Maxfield.
-- Tammara Webber -
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Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.
-- Terry Goodkind -
Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.
-- Thomas Aquinas -
If you would have a clear evidence that little love, that little faith, that little zeal, you have is true? Then live up to that love, live up to that faith, live up to that zeal that you have; and this will be evidence beyond all contradiction.
-- Thomas Brooks -
An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.
-- Thomas Brooks -
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The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
-- Thomas Merton -
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
-- Thomas Paine -
Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.
-- Tim Blake Nelson -
Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.
-- Tryon Edwards -