One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts, Each one of which down hurls me to the ground. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings. — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
The world is looking, not for Christians who are perfect, but for Christians who are honest and who are willing to be… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive… — Mark Kac Copy Share Image
In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Throughout history we humans have struggled to find meaning in the awesome contradiction of our human condition. Neither philosophy, nor psychology nor… — Jeremy Griffith Copy Share Image
Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your… — Randy Travis Copy Share Image
“But it is bad to stop, hard to be satisfied with a single way of seeing, to go without contradiction, perhaps the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And I'm not a student of religion, but I don't find anything in what the principal teachings of Islam that put us… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it?… — Samuel Grant Oliphant Copy Share Image
If we return to the two faces of individualism - individualism as the spur of energy, initiative, and imagination; and individualism as… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The fact is that there is a contradiction going on but our brains don't like contradiction. So when Moe hits Curly on… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them. — John Burdett Copy Share Image
Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity. — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole. — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms. — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I am a walking contradiction that's found consistency consuming everything, all without producing sustenance. — As I Lay Dying Copy Share Image
We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor. — David Brion Davis Copy Share Image
