Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates. — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending -… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake… — John Green Copy Share Image
“If they were right, there was an absence of conflict not only over the specific case of cosmology but, in principle, over… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly…As a scientist I remain… — Joanne Simpson Copy Share Image
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
What we now face is the contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people's ever-growing needs for a better life. — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in safety. A great risk in writing is imagining you have something to protect. Playing it safe to placate… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Making art now means working in the face of uncertainty; it means living with doubt and contradiction, doing something no one much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There seems to be an unalterable contradiction between the human mind and its employments. How can a soul be a merchant? What… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
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… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you… — Alexander Kluge Copy Share Image
The main efforts of investigators have been in papering over contradictions in the big bang theory, to build up an idea which… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject,… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto… — Francis Bacon 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 running… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But this is the ultimate contradiction of cinema. It's a medium BORN of technology, AFRAID of technology and evolving towards the future… — Edward Ross Copy Share Image
If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“I wondered if this wasn't a case of making the ideal an enemy of the good, but Salatin was convinced that industrial… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
“I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
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