Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“So I shut up and hold out a one-pound note, but he throws it on the ground, snatches back both pieces of… — Basma Abdel Aziz Copy Share Image
The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of… — Ayn Rand 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the… — Robert M. Price 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
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter; but this is the sort of thing (as the… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
“Beauty loves contradiction. Beauty is born of desire. And without beauty, there is nothing. Beauty is our keeper, our master, our reason.… — Thomas Lloyd Qualls Copy Share Image
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Faith and reason overpower each other throughout one's life, which results in contradiction, but the conflict never ceases in any sphere. — Lobsang Tenzin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes things that appear completely irreconcilable and mutually exclusive serve a shared purpose that could not be achieved except through their contradiction.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
For decades I'd flit from drawing table to typewriter to guitar with no sense of strain or contradiction. They all exercised the… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear… — David Lilienthal Copy Share Image
The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“It's the contradiction of life, if I were with them,I would only wish to be far away. Now that I am far… — Laura Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Laughter is unprovoked. It's such a natural thing. So I don't give myself rules around what I like and what I don't… — Robby Hoffman Copy Share Image
For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
“Life is a contradiction. Minimalism and in its simplicity opens the door to complicated analysis not just to dust free spaces.” — Rohan Chalmers of Copy Share Image
...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier… — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
