One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white. — David Sheff Copy Share Image
Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature. — Sylvia Fraser Copy Share Image
The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“A paradox is a truth in absolute defiance of the instant powers of logic to communicate it.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art:… — Robert Motherwell 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
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
The novel is a big space, and a lot can happen. Just think about the parts of your life. How do we… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“On the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality… — Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Copy Share Image
People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
