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
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
“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
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
...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 great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and… — William Greider Copy Share Image
People do tend to fear and despise shamans but turn to them in times of desperation. Such a contradiction is a human… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
After Trump's election victory, I explained why there would be no friendship between Putin and Trump. The contradictions between the systems are… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
I have very purposely never signed up with commercial lecture agencies as most, I think, prominent historical authors do because, to me,… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Much of the left's hate speech bears greater similarity to a psychological disorder than to standard political discourse. The hatred is blinding,… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when… — Jiddu Krishnamurti 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
“The first chapter of Matthew begins with giving a genealogy of Jesus Christ; and in the third chapter of Luke there is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a… — Burk Uzzle Copy Share Image
Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose… — Ayn Rand 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
“FV: Annandale defines 'definition' as "an explanation of the signification of a term." Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Detachment from things does not mean setting up a contradiction between 'things' and 'God' as if God were another thing and as… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have… — Raghuram Rajan 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
You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that… — Anthony F. C. Wallace Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a powerful producer of output, crisis-mongering on the left notwithstanding, and this too makes the system seem to have a… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . .… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It is...idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
When I decided to write a novel about Istanbul, I thought I should put the different faces of Istanbul into one book.… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
There isn't anything to worry about between science and religion, because the contradictions are just in your own mind. Of course they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hold myself accountable for my contradictions. I deeply, deeply believe in the mystical laws. I know that every thought sends an… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
