To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them. — John Burdett Copy Share Image
Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity. — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I was momentarily overwhelmed by the magnitude of the break I had made with my own history. The world was too big,… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People are... Full of contradictions. They're lonely. And then they're not. They're missed. And then they're not.” — Kou Yoneda Copy Share Image
“He did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the whole, for these petty contradictions of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time. — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
In my work as a historian and in my relationships as a friend, teacher, wife, and mother, I have come to think… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There's nothing to Obama - nothing but platitudes. When it's time to get to the substance, we get contradictions and confusions. We… — Rush Limbaugh 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
When Catullus expresses his love and hate for Lesbia, he is not obviously voicing a wish to rid himself of one or… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
“But at the same time, Sandro understood that people only tended to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever,… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
“Experience day by day protested and showed by infinite examples, that good and evil fortunes fall to the lot of pious and… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
To see the universe as it is, you must step beyond the net [the matrix]. It is not hard to do so,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“You claim that the evidentiary miracle is present and available, namely, the Koran. You say: 'Whoever denies it, let him produce a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
“Even the names of the four Ministries by which we are governed exhibit a sort of impudence in their deliberate reversal of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“How would I know what Jesus would have done? That fella was a mass of contradictions as far as I can see.… — donal ryan Copy Share Image
I've realized that life is indeed full of contradictions. Sometimes its crazy to be sane.You need to fall to fly. People suffer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Dostoyevsky was the sum of all these contradictions which either paralyze a man or lead him to the heights.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends. — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening. — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
“Such were the contradictions of manhood, Ferguson discovered. Your heart could be broken, but your gonads kept telling you to forget about… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
To be a film-maker, you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions... You must have talents of so many different kinds… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Even setting aside her checkered record in the Senate and the State Department, it is Mrs. Clinton's flagrant contradictions on women's issues… — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
Its important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are. — Richey Edwards Copy Share Image