Best 256 quotes in «contradiction quotes» category

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

Paradox likes contradictions with exits.

Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids.

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that.

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.

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.

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.

Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are crimson, and his own white steeple furnishes him with a contradiction.

The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible.

The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.

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.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.

The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce. It's a contradiction.

The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation- states, and its promotion by the UN is in clear contradiction to all that we, the Group of 77, and the UN Charter itself consider inalienable, namely national sovereignty and security.

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.

There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don`t have one desire, you have many desires. Not only that you have many desires, you have contradictory desires. If one is fulfilled, the other, which is its contradiction, remains unfulfilled and you are in misery. If the other is fulfilled, then something else remains unfulfilled.

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

There are (or is) indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other.

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions

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.

The will is a product of integrity, not a child of contradictions.

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger.

To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.