The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain… — Margaret Mead 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
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
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
Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 A.M. That first blush of… — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving.… — Thomas Edison Copy Share Image
I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends. — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour. — David Harvey 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
At certain times in the revolutionary struggle, the difficulties outweigh the favorable conditions and so constitute the principal aspect of the contradiction… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“In the Christian religion, though perhaps not in any other, we frequently find a conception of god that is selfcontradictory and therefore… — Richard Robinson Copy Share Image
Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
"Keep it 100" means keeping it 100 percent real. It comes from the expression ... "keeping it real," which means you are… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
The novel is a big space, and a lot can happen. Just think about the parts of your life. How do we… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
