At certain times in the revolutionary struggle, the difficulties outweigh the favorable conditions and so constitute the principal aspect of the contradiction… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The word translated, koan, it means a problem. But it's a very special problem. And to strip it down to the way… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“I cannot countenance the traditional belief that postulates a natural dichotomy between the objectivity of the scientist and the subjectivity of the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“Each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Every morning I shall concern myself anew about the boundary Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No And pressing forward honor reality. We… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“That both Riley and Warren are attracted to independent young women is an interesting contradiction that serves to valorize the agency of… — Lorna Jowett Copy Share Image
When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Well, there is a contradiction in a sense. If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary,… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
My hermeneutics is when I see verses in Scripture that are "apparent" contradictions - I don't believe they are contradictions - I… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. If modern people were a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I don't even know what I'm looking for, although I hope I'll know it if I find it along the way. Sometimes… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
This is the contradiction we have in the media. We love vigilantes: Batman, Tarzan, Green Arrow - the comic books and the… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Ownership by delegation is a contradiction in terms. When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
“We sometimes disputed, and very fond we were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another, which disputatious turn, by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state...I very much favour democracy,… — Avigdor Lieberman Copy Share Image
I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and… — William Greider Copy Share Image
I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
People do tend to fear and despise shamans but turn to them in times of desperation. Such a contradiction is a human… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
I'm such a contradiction: I eat really healthy, I go to the gym, but then I smoke two or three cigarettes a… — Paul Iacono Copy Share Image
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Much of the left's hate speech bears greater similarity to a psychological disorder than to standard political discourse. The hatred is blinding,… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
After Trump's election victory, I explained why there would be no friendship between Putin and Trump. The contradictions between the systems are… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
I have very purposely never signed up with commercial lecture agencies as most, I think, prominent historical authors do because, to me,… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The first chapter of Matthew begins with giving a genealogy of Jesus Christ; and in the third chapter of Luke there is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a… — Burk Uzzle Copy Share Image
