“You say you are a poet of law; I saw you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not… — G.K. Chesterton 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
I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy,… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with… Stop trying… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
There are (or is) indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually… — African Spir Copy Share Image
They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
When you're an immigrant, you're at the bottom of the ladder. You might not be at the bottom of the ladder economically.… — Vijay Seshadri 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
Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Well, it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write And kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“A mermaid is not frightened by her own duality. She is a walking contradiction of piety and lust, sobriety and ecstasy, brilliance… — Margot Datz Copy Share Image
You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet… — Alison Croggon Copy Share Image
If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Revolutionary practice in any field of human existence develops by itself if one comprehends the contradictions in every new process; it consists… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Contradiction is the heart and soul of character and drama. You're always looking for it. I loved her so much I hit… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
“A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The discrepancy or contradiction is the entire story. And being the entire story, it by itself discredits the entire twenty-six volumes of… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“There's a precise moment when we reject contradiction. This moment of choice is the lie we will live by. What is dearest… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work,… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
