The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
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… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“There are no logical contradictions in the Christian faith. If there were even one logical contradiction at the center of the Christian… — Ronald Nash Copy Share Image
We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge.… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity. But the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
I was looking for someplace to store all the things I was feeling - the friction, the contradictions, the unmerciful truth -… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
I see a bit of a contradiction between the fight against the Islamic State and the desire to remove the Assad regime.… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Organised religion is a contradiction in terms - it's the fallible meeting the infallible. Any earthly, bureaucratic representation of a higher power… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian… — V. K. Krishna Menon Copy Share Image
To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off… — William James Copy Share Image
The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for… — Reuel Howe Copy Share Image
I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The only reason why there's a lot people living in contradiction; they aren't in the right time, right situation, and right place.” — Innasafa Copy Share Image
If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it… — A.S.A. Harrison Copy Share Image
Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
“Certainly, I can choose to live in isolation. But therein lays the great rub; in doing so I have in reality chosen… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of public opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction,… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
“He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
