Quotes about Contradiction

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. Votes: 8

Good morning is a contradiction of terms. Votes: 5

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. Votes: 5

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. Votes: 5

Moderate Islam ? That's a contradiction. Votes: 3

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence. Votes: 3

Contradiction is the essence of the universe. Votes: 3

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption Votes: 3

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. Votes: 3

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. Votes: 3

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. Votes: 3

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. Votes: 3

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate." Votes: 3

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Votes: 3

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth. Votes: 3

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. Votes: 3

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. Votes: 3

Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole. Votes: 3

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. Votes: 3

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. Votes: 3

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. Votes: 3

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. Votes: 3

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery. Votes: 3

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. Votes: 3

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions. Votes: 3

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?. Votes: 3

There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter Votes: 3

The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity. Votes: 3

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it. Votes: 3

You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of all-all this orderliness, and at the heart, impossibility. Contradiction. Heaven built on the foundations of hell. Votes: 3

Contradiction is the heart and soul of character and drama. You're always looking for it. I loved her so much I hit her; that's character. I loved her so much I hit her again; that's even more character. Votes: 3

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture. Votes: 2

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. Votes: 2

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. Votes: 2

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ. Votes: 2

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. Votes: 2

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell. Votes: 2

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. Votes: 2

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. Votes: 2

There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter. Votes: 2

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality. Votes: 2

I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction. Votes: 2

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms. Votes: 2

I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals. Votes: 2

I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible. Votes: 2

Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are. Votes: 2

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. Votes: 2

You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox. Votes: 2

When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 A.M. That first blush of blue is where the night and day are trying to find harmony with each other. Harmony is the notes that Mozart didn't give you, but somehow the contradiction of his notes suggest that. All contradictions of his notes suggest the harmony. Votes: 2

Love is a contradiction. Votes: 0

Flight is intolerable contradiction. Votes: 0

In the contradiction lies the hope. Votes: 0

The world is full of contradiction. Votes: 0

Woman's at best a contradiction still. Votes: 0

Consumer culture is contradiction in terms Votes: 0

Holy War is a contradiction of terms... Votes: 0

Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself. Votes: 0

What you call 'contradiction' I call 'complement'. Votes: 0

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers. Votes: 0

Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction. Votes: 0

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction Votes: 0

Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction. Votes: 0

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

I always look for contradiction in a character. Votes: 0

A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction. Votes: 0

Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states and without contradiction Votes: 0

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox. Votes: 0

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it. Votes: 0

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

There is no contradiction between true religion and science Votes: 0

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality. Votes: 0

Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God. Votes: 0

Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction. Votes: 0

The illusion is reality. The only contradiction is the observer. Votes: 0

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction. Votes: 0

Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others. Votes: 0

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. Votes: 0

You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be. Votes: 0

Avoid contradiction. Clear institutional identity helps give you the competitive edge. Votes: 0

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

Let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully. Votes: 0

A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy. Votes: 0

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive. Votes: 0

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another. Votes: 0

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction. Votes: 0

We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction. Votes: 0

The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being. Votes: 0

A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil. Votes: 0

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

It is a contradiction to be a true Christian and not humble. Votes: 0

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive. Votes: 0

I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that. Votes: 0

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit. Votes: 0

When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction. Votes: 0

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids. Votes: 0

To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction. Votes: 0

I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms Votes: 0

When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the tongue to deal in fiction Votes: 0

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth Votes: 0

Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun. Votes: 0

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America. Votes: 0

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom. Votes: 0

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction. Votes: 0

We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world. Votes: 0

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral. Votes: 0

As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms. Votes: 0

The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships. Votes: 0

At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox. Votes: 0

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved ... Votes: 0

So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction. Votes: 0

There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings. Votes: 0

Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom. Votes: 0

I'm not a Jesus freak, I'm not a satan worshipper. I'm a contradiction, a juxtaposition. Votes: 0

Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free. Votes: 0

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other. Votes: 0

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction. Votes: 0

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it. Votes: 0

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts. Votes: 0

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy. Votes: 0

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me. Votes: 0

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction. Votes: 0

I was seventeen all over again, falling into intrigue with the boy who was an exquisite contradiction. Votes: 0

We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that. Votes: 0

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real. Votes: 0

Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God. Votes: 0

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong. Votes: 0

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity. Votes: 0

Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them. Votes: 0

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge. Votes: 0

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy Votes: 0

Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature. Votes: 0

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions. Votes: 0

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment. Votes: 0

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education. Votes: 0

Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument. Votes: 0

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality. Votes: 0

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. Votes: 0

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor. Votes: 0

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable. Votes: 0

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can. Votes: 0

Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife. Votes: 0

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction. Votes: 0

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that. Votes: 0

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it. Votes: 0

I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age. Votes: 0

You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away. Votes: 0

Praise is a contradiction of pride. Pride says 'looks at me,' but praise longs for people to see Jesus. Votes: 0

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality. Votes: 0

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching. Votes: 0

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty Votes: 0

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s. Votes: 0

The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers. Votes: 0

It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction. Votes: 0

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death Votes: 0

Sometimes things that appear completely irreconcilable and mutually exclusive serve a shared purpose that could not be achieved except through their contradiction. Votes: 0

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy. Votes: 0

Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that. Votes: 0

It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows. Votes: 0

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion Votes: 0

I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends. Votes: 0

Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself. Votes: 0

That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger. Votes: 0

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time. Votes: 0

Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding. Votes: 0

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried. Votes: 0

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life. Votes: 0

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty. Votes: 0

The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion. Votes: 0

I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured out. Votes: 0

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him. Votes: 0

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this. Votes: 0

A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity. Votes: 0

There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons. Votes: 0

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything supports everything else. Votes: 0

The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Here, fire turns into water;Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun.There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction;Everything supports everything else. Votes: 0

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching. Votes: 0

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students. Votes: 0

My criticism of Hegel procedure is that when in his discussion he arrives at a contradiction, he construes it as a crisis in the universe. Votes: 0

You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class. Votes: 0

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile. Votes: 0

It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902. Votes: 0

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association. Votes: 0

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. Votes: 0

Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people Votes: 0

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved. Votes: 0

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell. Votes: 0

Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the river. Votes: 0

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise consumption by major reduction ofindividualincometaxrates. Votes: 0

A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men. Votes: 0

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star. Votes: 0

Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible. Votes: 0

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore. Votes: 0

Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction. Votes: 0

Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing. Votes: 0

That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved. Votes: 0

The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923. Votes: 0

Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God. Votes: 0

A pacifist male is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described "pacifists" are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind changes, they hoist the Jolly Roger. Votes: 0

I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction. Votes: 0

It is a contradiction to support increased development assistance, yet turn a blind eye to actions by multinationals anothers that undermine the tax base of a developing country. Votes: 0

Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love. Votes: 0

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other. Votes: 0

We belong to a tradition where we treat the entire universe as our family. For me, globalisation is the manifestation of nationalisation. There is no contradiction between the two. Votes: 0

A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the progressive intellectual development of man. Votes: 0

The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time. Votes: 0

People are saying, "Oh my God, Saudi Arabia has changed." It's a contradiction. Do you want us to lead, or do you want us to play a supporting role? Votes: 0

I think there's an interesting contradiction of having a young face and an old soul. There's something funny about it, and it also allows you to reinvent being old. Votes: 0

I realize that was becoming a contradiction in terms, especially after my friend Alison Krauss was shot and killed in Kent State in 1970 on campus by the National Guard. Votes: 0

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You're seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you're worth. Votes: 0

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it. Votes: 0

The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast. Votes: 0

Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous. Votes: 0

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction Votes: 0

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not... Votes: 0

Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative. Votes: 0

The good news is that a vast majority of Indians from different religions see no contradiction between religiosity and liberalism, keep India stable. We religious liberals don't talk loudly enough. Votes: 0

There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe. Votes: 0

Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good. Votes: 0

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics. Votes: 0

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction. Votes: 0

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. Votes: 0

He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply. Votes: 0

I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.' Votes: 0

Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs. Votes: 0

It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often feels like a brutal trivialization of reality. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My mother was an angel, I blurtedA guardian angel. Kaidan began to chuckle.What's so funny? I asked.You. You're a walking contradiction. Horns and a halo. I don't belive it. Votes: 0

I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity. Votes: 0

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics. Votes: 0

It would be gross understatement to say that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not a model of clarity. It is in many important respects a model of ambiguity or indeed even self-contradiction. Votes: 0

Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that. Votes: 0

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism. Votes: 0

Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction. Votes: 0

There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free. Votes: 0

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world. Votes: 0

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything. Votes: 0

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Throughout history we humans have struggled to find meaning in the awesome contradiction of our human condition. Neither philosophy, nor psychology nor biology has, until now, been able to provide the truthful explanation. Votes: 0

Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual and society. The contradiction between individual principle and social principle disappears. Votes: 0

To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself. Votes: 0

I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops. Votes: 0

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly. Votes: 0

There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy, and how America can create interesting levels of contradiction. Votes: 0

The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny and oppression without killing huge numbers of people. Votes: 0

Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated. Votes: 0

Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow. Votes: 0

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual Votes: 0

Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input. Votes: 0

Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false. Votes: 0

Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy ... Votes: 0

The discrepancy or contradiction is the entire story. And being the entire story, it by itself discredits the entire twenty-six volumes of the Warren Commission. Nothing else has to be shown or even argued. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact. Votes: 0

You're always fighting the contradiction between the supposed intimacy of a two-person conversation and the blunt reality that you're trying to sell the play to people who are sitting maybe too far away from you. Votes: 0

I'm not going to try and change how people perceive me. I think it's important to be a contradiction. People are contradictions; everyone has contradictions. So I don't expect anyone to look at me differently. Votes: 0

The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces. Votes: 0

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0