“In order not to find me in contradiction with myself, I should be allowed enough time to explain myself” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Look but don't touch. Taste but don't eat. Smell but don't desire. Depart form all sanity.” — Iva Hotko Copy Share Image
Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction. — Richard Savage Copy Share Image
How can you expect me to be perfect...when I am full of contradictions. — Abraham ibn Ezra Copy Share Image
Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist. — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
America interests me above all because it is so filled with contradictions, interesting contradictions, which change constantly. Even if you've decided that… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
“No beast of reality, or creature of imagination, is as terrible as mankind. Or as loving. It’s a contradiction. I’ve always liked… — David Estes Copy Share Image
He must also know evil, hate and bigotry as real phenomena, but he must see love as the greater force. He must… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me,… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
The God who inspired the Bible is the same God who made the universe, Earth, and all life. This God is the… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
“Every symptom the ego makes involves a contradiction in terms, because the mind is split between the ego and the Holy Spirit,… — Foundation for Inner Peace Copy Share Image
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place… — Arthur Frederick Saunders Copy Share Image
The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real. — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions. — Ai Yazawa Copy Share Image
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Self-development is a contradiction in terms Personal development is the way.” — Frank Ra Copy Share Image
Love is such a contradiction. He does the things that hurt her and yet she continues to love him. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
“How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.” — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions. — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole. — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Lies are an absence of facts and, in many cases, a direct contradiction of them. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
“Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard. p 44” — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
