“but could a man be simultaneously bad and good, we asked ourselves, and the Afghan Moon replied that irreconcilable contradiction and the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger. — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick's vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
There were a lot of contradictions between Marcello's[ Mastroianni] public persona and who he was in private. The fact that Italy chose… — Giovanna Cau Copy Share Image
People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
…You should keep dental floss on you at all times; when your eyesight goes, quit driving; don't keep too many secrets, eventually… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
Moderate Islam? That's a contradiction. It's going to be a long time before we see a new Koran, an equivalent to the… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Marx set out to resolve the contradictions and to correct the errors in classical political economy. In this he thought he had… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“Now there are some, and I don't just mean Communists like you, but thinking men of all political parties, who think that… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy!… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
Who will show me any Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty of the American people to surrender everything valuable in life,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It's really hard to make a good film; it's really, really hard. So, the director's very important, and a character that can… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics,… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
“What is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
Who's the big government guy? These labels are nonsense. And the Tea Party, if you want to call them working class, you… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“If they were right, there was an absence of conflict not only over the specific case of cosmology but, in principle, over… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the… — Jean Piaget 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
I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction,… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
Downtown Cairo is at the center of the city, it is a place that has to be shared between different classes. It's… — Tamer El Said Copy Share Image
Effortlessness means not doing anything, inactivity - AKARMA. Effort means doing much, activity - KARMA. Both have to be there. Do much,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince;… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The heartbeat of your originality is deep within a body of thought that continually wrestles with the contradictions and limitations that we're… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Once a big loss has happened it is part of the picture forever. Not something you "get over." While each loss has… — Victoria Redel Copy Share Image