I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends. — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the… — David First Copy Share Image
A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I am incredibly cynical, and I don't think that's something people would guess. People think I'm all positive, but I'm a skeptic. — Nikita Dutta Copy Share Image
The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“If we presuppose that Jesus and God are one—as many (but not all) Christians do—then we can also infer that Jesus Christ… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
There seems to be a contradiction in the fact that there's more music around and more channels or downloading music or more… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
The Muslim contribution to the future of America is to not only speak out as Muslims, but to also speak out as… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Every observer has noted that the younger the child, the less sense he has of his own ego. From the intellectual point… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think you’re freaked about what happened at Cambridge. I think it scared you." “I’ve been through worse, Bex,” I said, joining… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We belong to a tradition where we treat the entire universe as our family. For me, globalisation is the manifestation of nationalisation.… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“The idea that there is some kind of contradiction between the in-depth study of God’s Word, so as to know what God… — James Robert White Copy Share Image
It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“There was supervised recreation. This is the original contradiction of terms. It was for making suggestions about supervised recreation that the devil… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“What men call chance is simply their ignorance of causes; if the statement that something had happened by chance were to mean… — René Guénon Copy Share Image
With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The Patriotic Front is two organisations under a banner, and we cannot create one party overnight. It takes time. Even if we… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“My criticism of Hegel procedure is that when in his discussion he arrives at a contradiction, he construes it as a crisis… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts… — Elizabeth Bear 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
“One contradiction of the human heart is this: God refuses to see any one person as unique in his or her relationship… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I got interested in the contradiction between people who are understanding the city by not moving a single inch, by remaining in… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
There's nothing to Obama - nothing but platitudes. When it's time to get to the substance, we get contradictions and confusions. We… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When Catullus expresses his love and hate for Lesbia, he is not obviously voicing a wish to rid himself of one or… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
![“[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a…” quote by Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b9/joseph-campbell-300_ancient_comedies-in-the-ancient-world-were-regar_3109729.jpg)
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