The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are. Even the dictionary has trouble accepting… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation.… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the… — Kenneth Keniston 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
There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Jesus said that I am the only way. So it is illogical to say all religions are true, but it is not… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction. — Richard Savage Copy Share Image
I'm not going to try and change how people perceive me. I think it's important to be a contradiction. People are contradictions;… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
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