Best 256 quotes in «contradiction quotes» category

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

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.

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

I'm aware that I'm kind of a paradox, and at times a bit ill-suited to my profession. But there's something that brings me back. There's something in me that feels like I have to do this, that this is what I'm meant to be doing. If I didn't feel this way, I wouldn't do it. But it's full of contradictions, for sure.

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.

I see a bit of a contradiction between the fight against the Islamic State and the desire to remove the Assad regime. And even if you work with Russia, I'm just not sold that working with Russia is an effective way to hasten the end of the Assad regime or to enact any type of punitive measures.

Isn’t everyone’s life a mass of contradictions?

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.

If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.

If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

In our inherent contradictions as humans, and in order to validate our own pain, we deny the pain of others. But it is in acknowledging the pain of others that we achieve fully our humanity.

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.

I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.

It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.

It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.

It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.

Jesus said that I am the only way. So it is illogical to say all religions are true, but it is not illogical to say all religions are false. All religion could be false but they can't all be true because there are direct logical contradictions.

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

Love is a contradiction.

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.

Moderate Islam? That's a contradiction. It's going to be a long time before we see a new Koran, an equivalent to the New Testament. Attacks don't happen in the name of Buddhism or Christianity; nor do homosexuals get beaten up, as happens daily in Amsterdam.

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.

Massive immigration brings with it cultures that are sometimes in contradiction with our values.

Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

No legislative, administrative or judicial activity in the Hong Kong SAR is allowed to contradict the Basic Law, let alone to go against the Basic Law.

Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.