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“[O]ne could assume an incompatibility, at one and the same level of reference, between two philosophical propositions, both of which cannot be… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
I think the other side of this is that while the contradictions matter, one of the things that you cannot lose sight… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible,… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That's toxic waste to our… — Jesse Jackson 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
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
“What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or… — Euripides Copy Share Image
I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey,… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Brands are faced with the daily challenge of massively scaling their outreach in order to build personal relationships. While this may seem… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What the articles which have been written about The First Man propose is humility. The acceptance of these contradictions. Seeking an explanation… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
By 1938, Eleanor Roosevelt was so angry at FDR's policies, she writes a book called This Troubled World. And it is actually… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
And I'm not a student of religion, but I don't find anything in what the principal teachings of Islam that put us… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
If we return to the two faces of individualism - individualism as the spur of energy, initiative, and imagination; and individualism as… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it?… — Samuel Grant Oliphant Copy Share Image
That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The fact is that there is a contradiction going on but our brains don't like contradiction. So when Moe hits Curly on… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The heartbeat of your originality is deep within a body of thought that continually wrestles with the contradictions and limitations that we're… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Once a big loss has happened it is part of the picture forever. Not something you "get over." While each loss has… — Victoria Redel Copy Share Image
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The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince;… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
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![“[O]ne could assume an incompatibility, at one and the same level of reference, between two philosophical propositions, both of which cannot be true in accordance with the principle of contradiction. Alternatively, one might perhaps suppose a complementarity - perhaps even an incommensurability…” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a51/karl-brunnholzl-4600_buddhism_o-ne-could-assume-an-incompatibility-at_1574326.jpg)
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