Quotes about Contradictions

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: 4

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes ... Votes: 3

Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?" Votes: 3

Love is an act of faith, not an exchange. Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side. Votes: 3

Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity. Votes: 3

Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little corners and parks; well-tended, middle-class sections as well as an alternative scene; technology centers for innovative youth and social facilities for older people. Votes: 3

There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true. Votes: 3

Life is never free of contradictions. Votes: 2

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. Votes: 2

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. Votes: 2

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time. Votes: 2

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. Votes: 2

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. Votes: 2

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that? Votes: 2

Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster. Votes: 2

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions. Votes: 2

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are. Votes: 2

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life. Votes: 2

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity. Votes: 2

I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair to good feminists. If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one. I am a mess of contradictions. Votes: 2

The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation. Votes: 2

I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world. Votes: 2

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.' Votes: 2

Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred - Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned parents who knew Freud and Jung never saw the contradictions in feeding us on them. Votes: 2

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions. Votes: 2

We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete, for the tensions and the contradictions within them will never be eliminated or resolved. That challenge is essential to their power and their attraction. War stories matter. Votes: 2

I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world. Votes: 2

I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities of R&B music in the '70s and '80s, will continue to be one of the most recognized and formidable human beings that we've ever produced in our tradition. Votes: 2

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older. Votes: 2

A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno. Votes: 2

I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams. 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

Poetry dovetails contradictions. Votes: 0

Paradox likes contradictions with exits. Votes: 0

Love is a drama of contradictions. Votes: 0

I am a mass of contradictions. Votes: 0

Life is never free of contradictions Votes: 0

Isn't everyone's life a mass of contradictions? Votes: 0

Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions. Votes: 0

I hold myself accountable for my contradictions. Votes: 0

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions. Votes: 0

You need contradictions to make an ideal. Votes: 0

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions. Votes: 0

My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions, Votes: 0

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted. Votes: 0

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose. Votes: 0

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy. Votes: 0

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions. Votes: 0

To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions Votes: 0

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions. Votes: 0

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart. Votes: 0

I like complicated women. I like women with strength and contradictions... Votes: 0

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions. Votes: 0

There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises. Votes: 0

The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions. Votes: 0

It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being Votes: 0

The will is a product of integrity, not a child of contradictions. Votes: 0

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity. Votes: 0

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow. Votes: 0

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis. Votes: 0

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions. Votes: 0

God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions. Votes: 0

The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions. Votes: 0

A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions. Votes: 0

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions. Votes: 0

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed. Votes: 0

self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions. Votes: 0

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites Votes: 0

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. Votes: 0

Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence. Votes: 0

Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together Votes: 0

A healing journey into the inner conflicts and contradictions that separate spirit from self. Votes: 0

The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour. Votes: 0

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings. Votes: 0

How can you expect me to be perfect...when I am full of contradictions. Votes: 0

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. Votes: 0

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white. Votes: 0

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. Votes: 0

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening. Votes: 0

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. Votes: 0

You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions. Votes: 0

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them. Votes: 0

We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding. Votes: 0

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart. Votes: 0

The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is. Votes: 0

Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions. Votes: 0

If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions. Votes: 0

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. Votes: 0

Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE Votes: 0

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions. Votes: 0

Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments. Votes: 0

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them. Votes: 0

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character. Votes: 0

We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us. Votes: 0

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy Votes: 0

It's important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are. Votes: 0

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions. Votes: 0

The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible. Votes: 0

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run. Votes: 0

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy. Votes: 0

How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over. Votes: 0

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. Votes: 0

Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole. Votes: 0

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates. Votes: 0

One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions. Votes: 0

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life. Votes: 0

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil. Votes: 0

Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem. Votes: 0

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. Votes: 0

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. Votes: 0

...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any. Votes: 0

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities. Votes: 0

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with. Votes: 0

These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides. Votes: 0

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory. Votes: 0

I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy. Votes: 0

The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find. Votes: 0

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions. Votes: 0

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

She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties. Votes: 0

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves. Votes: 0

I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing. Votes: 0

The women I cast have to embody all sorts of contradictions... I have to find the right woman to speak to other women. Votes: 0

There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit. Votes: 0

Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions. Votes: 0

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies. Votes: 0

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations. Votes: 0

Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply become impossible. Votes: 0

If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all. Votes: 0

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride. Votes: 0

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world. Votes: 0

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: 0

I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant. Votes: 0

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world. Votes: 0

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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: 0

Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer. Votes: 0

Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the job description, Mr. Maxfield. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God's redemptive action. Votes: 0

Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions. Votes: 0

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change. 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

Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the label on the can of worms. Votes: 0

Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that only music can provide. Votes: 0

The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity. Votes: 0

We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs. Votes: 0

Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of the answers to its own contradictions. Votes: 0

Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance. Votes: 0

The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

It is a fact that the bitterest contradictions and the deadliest conflicts of the world are carried on in every individual breast capable of feeling and passion. [An anarchist] Votes: 0

Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy. Such differences are to be expected as long as human understanding remains provisional and fragmentary. Votes: 0

Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions. Votes: 0

Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

The main efforts of investigators have been in papering over contradictions in the big bang theory, to build up an idea which has become ever more complex and cumbersome. Votes: 0

It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it. Votes: 0

Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions — light and darkness mixed. Votes: 0

The world is looking, not for Christians who are perfect, but for Christians who are honest and who are willing to be honest with some of our contradictions and hypocrisy. Votes: 0

... it is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in it ... Votes: 0

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions. Votes: 0

The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the Moses-like Muhammad with a Torah of his own.... Votes: 0

Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations. Votes: 0

If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease. Votes: 0

My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the outward contradictions, I do call us a rock'n'roll band. Votes: 0

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: 0

The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on paper. Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard. Votes: 0

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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: 0

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions. Votes: 0

The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances. Votes: 0

To discover our own intimate contradictions is a success in itself because our interior judgment is spontaneously free. The man guided by the voice of the Consciousness walks victorious through the Correct Path. Votes: 0

Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called natural scarcities and on occasion, as Marx might put it, these barriers can be transformed into absolute contradictions and crises. Votes: 0

I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat a number of contradictions. That happens to be my creative temperament. Votes: 0

The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral failings, contradictions with the elders, nostalgia for a nonexistent Kenyan past. Votes: 0

...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest pictures would then... find wholeness in the torn world. Votes: 0

It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation. Votes: 0

You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it. Votes: 0

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little ... oh, I admit only a very little ... of what life is about. Votes: 0

As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men. Votes: 0

The world is in America. In Italy is only Italy. France is full of France. Germany is full of Germany. In a continent that contains the entire world, contradictions are, of course, constantly arising. Votes: 0

People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions. Votes: 0

We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side. Votes: 0

[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee aptly described his work, but also for embodying the contradictions within it. Votes: 0

There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Revolutionary practice in any field of human existence develops by itself if one comprehends the contradictions in every new process; it consists in siding with those forces which act in the direction of progressive development. Votes: 0

A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure. Votes: 0

I am, like anybody else, full of contradictions and personality traits, and I don't know which ones to speak from as a stand-up or what aspects of myself to ask an audience to identify with. Votes: 0

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths, or to reject absurdities, and palpable contradictions. Votes: 0

. . . in one sense a foundation is a security blanket: If you meticulously follow the rules laid down, no paradoxes or contradictions will arise. In reality there is now no guarantee of this sort of security . . . Votes: 0

Civil marriage is a very serious problem. I think that even the religious understands that we must look for some kind of a solution because we have some contradictions. . I'm sure there are many solutions. Votes: 0

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. Votes: 0

Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion! Votes: 0

I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both. 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

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradictions in the stories which in any ancient narrative would have to arouse the historian's suspicion. Votes: 0