Praise is a contradiction of pride. Pride says 'looks at me,' but praise longs for people to see Jesus. — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved ... — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them. — William Blake Copy Share Image
We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us. — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.” — William Blake Copy Share Image
I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect and how best to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I think my whole career has been marked - or marred - by what people presume about me. But even that's fed… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
“In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“There had been no contradiction between a man of science and a man of religion. They provided different means to the same… — Colin Dickey Copy Share Image
A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals,… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers,… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that… — Avi Copy Share Image
The contradiction [trying to use Russian model to reshape Italy] grew to such an extent that I felt totally cut off from… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
To have a beautiful sandy beach in Scotland seems like such a contradiction. — Mary McCartney Copy Share Image
Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
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