Contradiction Quotes · Page 12

“In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other.”

— Victor Hugo

To have a beautiful sandy beach in Scotland seems like such a contradiction.

— Mary McCartney

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

— Jim Jarmusch

“Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.”

— William Blake

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

— Mason Cooley

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Lisa Lutz

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

— Max Beerbohm

The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same…

— Richard D. Wolff

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy,…

— Charlie Chaplin

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

— Czeslaw Milosz

“You say you are a poet of law; I saw you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not…

— G.K. Chesterton

Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a…

— Gottfried Leibniz

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

— Deepak Chopra

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…

— David First

A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered…

— Daniel Webster

Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the…

— Albert Camus

Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious…

— Steven Weinberg

The fact is that there is a contradiction going on but our brains don't like contradiction. So when Moe hits Curly on…

— Brad Warner

And I'm not a student of religion, but I don't find anything in what the principal teachings of Islam that put us…

— George H. W. Bush

“Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it?…

— Samuel Grant Oliphant

If we return to the two faces of individualism - individualism as the spur of energy, initiative, and imagination; and individualism as…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical…

— Edward Steichen

By 1938, Eleanor Roosevelt was so angry at FDR's policies, she writes a book called This Troubled World. And it is actually…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— James MacDonald

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

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

— Errol Flynn

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

— Peter Deunov

“It is a contradiction this creek- a hundred thousand years old but renewed with each rainfall.”

— Robert R. McCammon

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Don't you see any contradiction between being a Christian and being the chauffeur for a major right-wing figure?”

— Haruki Murakami

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything...

— Anonymous

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

— David Harvey

“What are you rambling about, you nonsensical contradiction?”

— McKelle George

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Ernest Becker

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

— Rajneesh

Good taste and humour...are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

— Malcolm Muggeridge