Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Africa is a continent of contradiction not only in the area of natural resources. It is also a continent of contradiction in… — Alemayehu Mekonnen Copy Share Image
The business aspect of this sport is a contradiction to what it's really about, and that's knowing something for what it is… — Eddie Alvarez Copy Share Image
If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital.… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you'll say: Continue my… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The inclusion of just one contradiction (like 0 = 1) in an axiomatic system allows any statement about the objects in the… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
The use or abuse of Christianity in contradiction to the very message of the gospel reveals not the gospel for what it… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“you make me laugh, with your metaphysical anguish, its just that you're scared silly, frightened of life, of men of action, of… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the… — Julian Critchley Copy Share Image
Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies,… — Pauli Murray Copy Share Image
We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue… — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is a contradiction to support increased development assistance, yet turn a blind eye to actions by multinationals anothers that undermine the… — Trevor Manuel Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions. — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
“You are the most ludicrous excuse for a man I've ever known - but there isn't a centimetre of you that I… — Lucy Robinson Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“A mystic is anyone who has a gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradiction, and discontinuities that assault us every day… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My body is in a state of perpetual contradiction, alive with anticipation and simultaneously dead of all other emotion.” — Alex Morel Copy Share Image
We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There was a time when 'universe' meant 'all there is.' Everything. The whole shebang. The notion of more than one universe, more… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Everybody should have health care, on the one hand. But on the other hand, if you ask Americans, "Are you willing to… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Do not dismiss your inner thoughts and feelings, even if they are in contradiction to what you are supposed to be or… — Kumar Anupam Copy Share Image
Hollywood was set up by a bunch of businessmen. They do not see their job as being philanthropists. I don't think it's… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
It would be gross understatement to say that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not a model of clarity. It is in… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an… — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
“He was aware that the essence of proper intelligence was the embrace of contradiction. And the recognition of complexity was to be… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything especially as I am now so much occupied with… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
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