The practical man demands an appearance of reality at least. Always dealing in the concrete, he regards mathematical terms not as symbols… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
We need to be ambivalent - in the essay, and in life too. Ambivalence - having mixed feelings, entertaining contradiction, living with… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants,… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
The interesting thing I learned was that if you're really concerned about your health, the best decisions for your health turn out… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true andfalse but crucial questions… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey Copy Share Image
No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
People usually forget that fashion designers are not artists, but there is an artistic side that is very strong in my point… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
“Michael was a complete contradiction. One minute he was tying one of my friend’s up with duct tape and threatening to kill… — K.S. Ruff Copy Share Image
In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you think you see a certain contradiction here? In that case, a word in your ear. Study your wife closely, for… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I am a contradiction. I am an introvert, but I cant stand being by myself for more than a couple hours. I… — Rachel Copy Share Image
I think that contradictions, unless they're understood, unless they're analyzed, unless they're thoughtfully probed, unless people have a sense of what those… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“Once we allow the logical reconstruction of something (a being, a theodicy, and the like) to have internal self contradiction, it obviously… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Suppose a student of mine writes in her exam that "morality is completely relative to culture, so nothing is absolutely right or… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
“Jos kaiken aikaa täytyy varoa olemasta eri mieltä keskustelukumppaninsa kanssa, tuntuu kuin loppujen lopuksi olisi aivan yksin. But such a man there… — Yoshida Kenkō 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
The essential contradiction at the heart of America's problems: if we were a democracy and if we truly enjoyed free speech, we… — Douglas Valentine Copy Share Image
We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
“ART The world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed.… — C. S. Lewis 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
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
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
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
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