My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions,

Everest? Don't forget it's really just a big pile of rocks.

— David Breashears

Add little to little and there will be a big pile.

— Ovid

The Devil craps on the big pile

— Albert Einstein

Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object and the…

— Rajneesh

It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

— Richey Edwards

Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the…

— Chinua Achebe

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of…

— Thomas Jefferson

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

— Carl Jung

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

— David Harvey

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

— George Santayana

We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs…

— Arthur Machen

“Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to share guilt…

— Steve Aylett

The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and…

— Vladimir Lenin

There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ''the…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

— Muriel Spark