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
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
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
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
“What is Gnan (true knowledge)? There should be solutions from all sides and no contradictions should arise. A non-contradictory principle is the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts… — Jamaica Kincaid 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
Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must… — Swami Vivekananda 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
There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences,… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Thrasymachos. Tell me now, in one word, what shall I be after my death? And mind you be clear and precise. Philalethes.… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are several states where you can get married. But I think I can say without fear of contradiction, 'Paradise awaits.' We'll… — Neil Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
“If you play games with the law of non-contradiction, then every time you open your mouth and say anything, you're cheating. Every… — Ronald Nash Copy Share Image
Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE. — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment. — Sally Schneider Copy Share Image
After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A successful object is one which exists beyond its own reality, which creates a dual (and not merely interactlve) relation (with its… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The good news is that a vast majority of Indians from different religions see no contradiction between religiosity and liberalism, keep India… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I started to think more about becoming peace rather than fighting for peace, and the contradiction in terms, and the anger and… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
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