Best 256 quotes in «contradiction quotes» category

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

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

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 necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.

Love is a contradiction.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

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.

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?

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

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

Paradox likes contradictions with exits.

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.

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

Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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