I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
The main efforts of investigators have been in papering over contradictions in the big bang theory, to build up an idea which… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you… — Alexander Kluge Copy Share Image
You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Unless you recognize the contradictions within various strata, you fall prey to a really kind of false homogenization that does not do… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I will not call myself a pacifist for the very simple reason that if something like a [Francisco] Franco should arise in… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It… — Elihu Palmer Copy Share Image
Let us be bold enough to ask ourselves as Christians whether the Church of the Lord Jesus in the United States has… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If you do not assume the law of non-contradiction, you have nothing to argue about. If you do not assume the principles… — William J. Murray 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 discover our own intimate contradictions is a success in itself because our interior judgment is spontaneously free. The man guided by… — Samael Aun Weor 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
Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching. — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
Judaism is a whole line of values that have existed for thousands of years, but the democratic idea is a new idea,… — Yair Lapid 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
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
“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
In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable. — Sigmund Freud 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
Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
We waste a lot of time, but when death come for us we will beg for another minute, and that prove the… — Tarek Soloman Copy Share Image
There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
“To most anarchists, the advocacy of freedom on Earth while bowing to a heavenly tyrant (no matter how imaginary) seems an insupportable… — Chaz Bufe Copy Share Image
Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
Yoga and Vipassana are the two most time tested ancient techniques for keeping the body, mind and spirit in harmony and in… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
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