Best 256 quotes in «contradiction quotes» category

Your eyes will contradict your words if your words contradict your thoughts and feelings.

You seem to be in a state of such absolute contradiction that I would not be surprised if your face tore in half.

A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

...an incorrect theory, even if it cannot be inhibited by any contradiction that would refute it, is none the less incorrect, just as a criminal policy is none the less criminal even if it cannot be inhibited by any court that would curb it.

A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.

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.

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.

A successful object is one which exists beyond its own reality, which creates a dual (and not merely interactlve) relation (with its users also), a relation of contradiction, misappropriation and destablilisation.

As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.

Avoid contradiction. Clear institutional identity helps give you the competitive edge.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or sub oppressors. The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradiction of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them to be men is to be oppressors

Consumer culture is contradiction in terms

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.

Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.

Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction.

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.

Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.

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?

Everybody should have health care, on the one hand. But on the other hand, if you ask Americans, "Are you willing to pay for it?," they say no. So I've never been able to understand this contradiction.

God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is nothing but a mass of contradictions.

Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms.

For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

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.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.