Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier… — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
I realize that was becoming a contradiction in terms, especially after my friend Alison Krauss was shot and killed in Kent State… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear… — David Lilienthal Copy Share Image
The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed,… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don't have one desire, you have many desires. Not only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's the contradiction of life, if I were with them,I would only wish to be far away. Now that I am far… — Laura Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such… — Karen O Copy Share Image
“He's a contradiction: taut magic coiled to strike, gentleness at war with severity, a tongue as sharp as a whip's edge, yet… — A.G. Howard Copy Share Image
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science?” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict.… — John Hench Copy Share Image
That split is inside all Americans. There are contradictions inside all of us about color and race. We've learned to cover them… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
If we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a spiritual life… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
