When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“There had been no contradiction between a man of science and a man of religion. They provided different means to the same… — Colin Dickey Copy Share Image
A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
I think my whole career has been marked - or marred - by what people presume about me. But even that's fed… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
It was a week after Donald Trump had won. And initially he was still optimistic. He felt that things would be OK… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I'm a paradox. I want to be happy, but I think things that make me sad. I'm lazy, yet I'm ambitious. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be… — Bjork Copy Share Image
There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation.… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The most common thing that real reporters say to me is, "I wish I could say what you say." What I don't… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect and how best to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I… — Chris Ofili Copy Share Image
You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I loved him. I hated him. I wanted to kiss him. I wanted to strangle him. I was a walking, talking contradiction.… — A. Meredith Walters Copy Share Image
There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Christians must show that misery fits the good for heaven, while happiness prepares the bad for hell; that the wicked get all… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“A truth is not necessary, because we negatively are not able to conceive the actual existence of the opposite thereof;but a truth… — R.L. Dabney Copy Share Image
[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I wanted to start a website for teenaged girls that was not kind of this one-dimensional strong character empowerment thing, because one… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
“Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
There seems to be a contradiction in the fact that there's more music around and more channels or downloading music or more… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
“If we presuppose that Jesus and God are one—as many (but not all) Christians do—then we can also infer that Jesus Christ… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
I suppose that the first organized effort that might be considered something of civil rights was the Young Negroes' Cooperative League. Now,… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
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I don't know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn't feel like a line… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I thought a lot about Nixon's personal history and the changes in America during his lifetime and tried to craft stories, which… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
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