“FV: Annandale defines 'definition' as "an explanation of the signification of a term." Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Can it then be doubted, but that God, who is infinitely fine Spirit, and withal intelligent, can make and change all species… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
So capital is in fact borderless; that's the problem. On the other hand capital has to keep borders alive in order for… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The principal hindrance to the advancement of the kingdom of God is greed. It is the chief obstacle to heaven-sent revival. It… — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The chief reason I shove the reader inside the body - or more specifically, the chief reason I try to get the… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'"… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I have never, so far, in all the studies I have done, met a contradiction between what the human, experimental and natural… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Reality is created out of confusion and contradiction, and if you exclude those elements, you're no longer talking about reality. You might… — Murakami, Haruki Copy Share Image
In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
A cat is a purring parcel of paradox, a cunning collection of contradictions. A cat is lazy and busy, dainty and savage,… — Leonore Fleischer Copy Share Image
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
I think that in free societies, and we're constantly talking about living in free societies, aren't we, in contradiction with unhappy people… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
