The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
. . . in one sense a foundation is a security blanket: If you meticulously follow the rules laid down, no paradoxes… — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
Change does not fail to occur because of insincerity. The heart patient is not insincere about his wish to keep living, even… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The thing that [the Senate and the House] don't realize is that everyone wants them to come from beyond that contradiction so… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out. I… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
No contradictions will arise as long as Finite Man does not mistake the infinite for something fixed, as long as he is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“This man—this impeccable, mortal creature. A figurine on the stage of life, outwardly flawless yet perfectly destructible. What hidden forces animated this… — Z.K. Kostka Copy Share Image
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Brainstorm and make impossible possible. Make contradictions realistic. As if a contradiction is the other name of impossibility? Or simply impossible when… — Priyavrat Thareja Copy Share Image
Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Don’t walk away at the first sign of a contradiction or a problem. Sometimes scientific study needs to play catch-up to the… — Mark Clark Copy Share Image
Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
I came to trust in Jesus as my Savior after a two-year personal study of the Bible that convinced me that Scripture… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument. — Samuel Homola Copy Share Image
You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake,… — Chris Bauer Copy Share Image
You can make an interesting character in a small portion of a movie, for a character that doesn't have that much on… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
These eyes have seen no conviction. Just lies and more contradiction. So tell me what would you say I'd say it's time… — Sum 41 Copy Share Image
“Reason quite properly rejects contradiction, but rationalism abhors mystery, which every heresy attempts in its own way to resolve.” — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image