Best 256 quotes in «contradiction quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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 were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was 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.

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

To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: The more connected we become, the lonelier we are.

We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.

Well, there is a contradiction in a sense. If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system - I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest. And to that extent you could say it was contradictory.

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.

When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.