The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“So I shut up and hold out a one-pound note, but he throws it on the ground, snatches back both pieces of… — Basma Abdel Aziz Copy Share Image
“I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
“And while the body is confined to one planet, along which it creeps with pain and difficulty; the thought can in an… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“His mind had been working away behind his high forehead. Unimaginative himself he could recognize imagination in her: he had come upon… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
“I am poor—you are my riches; dark—you are my light; I own nothing, need nothing. And how could I own anything? After… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
My mother was the tough-as-nails disciplinarian who showed very little to no emotion. My father, on the other hand, was a study… — Patricia Montandon Copy Share Image
“BLACK AND WHITE I was born into A religion of Light, But with so many other Religions and Philosophies, How do I… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“…There is some firm place in me which knows that what happened to Wally, whatever it was, whatever it is that death… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“Plainly it is not every error made by a witness which affects his credibility. In each case the trier of fact has… — H.C. Nicholas Copy Share Image
People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
There were a lot of contradictions between Marcello's[ Mastroianni] public persona and who he was in private. The fact that Italy chose… — Giovanna Cau Copy Share Image
In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick's vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“but could a man be simultaneously bad and good, we asked ourselves, and the Afghan Moon replied that irreconcilable contradiction and the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger. — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
I started to think more about becoming peace rather than fighting for peace, and the contradiction in terms, and the anger and… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment. — Sally Schneider Copy Share Image
“If you play games with the law of non-contradiction, then every time you open your mouth and say anything, you're cheating. Every… — Ronald Nash Copy Share Image
Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE. — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
The good news is that a vast majority of Indians from different religions see no contradiction between religiosity and liberalism, keep India… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
A successful object is one which exists beyond its own reality, which creates a dual (and not merely interactlve) relation (with its… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image