“A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together. — Pat Colander Copy Share Image
I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions. — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
“What was education for, if not to acquire contradictions? At least it looked like that to me. ” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“By ignoring the apparent contradictions of scripture, fundamentalism ignores its questions, reducing its complexity to implicit equations. Hate equals love; obedience is… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions. — Roberto Assagioli Copy Share Image
“In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions:… — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The need to be right can arise from a fear of being disrespected. Or it may come out of the fear of… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
I think the other side of this is that while the contradictions matter, one of the things that you cannot lose sight… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I am, like anybody else, full of contradictions and personality traits, and I don't know which ones to speak from as a… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“Force is often used to enforce peace and an A bomb did bring world war 2 to a shuddering halt. The funniest… — Nidhie Sharma Copy Share Image
Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“It is an amazing contradiction: a society that frowns on a woman going out without a man; that forces you to use… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“I have now gone through the examination of the four books ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; and when it is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I hold myself accountable for my contradictions. I deeply, deeply believe in the mystical laws. I know that every thought sends an… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“Like most people I am smarter than some, dumber than others, skinnier than most, and fatter than a few, but none was… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“They were falling back into familiarity, into common ground, into the dirty gray. Just ordinary humans in ordinary opaque boiled-egg light, without… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
“How do you even speak of, let alone propose regulation of, [any] category [so] full of internal contradictions? . . . Maybe,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
“What is fact? What records did the church, in its misguided attempt to cleanse the past of perceived contradictions, rewrite to suit… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“Don’t worry about contradictions. No one is innocent. No one is guilty. We are all misunderstood even by ourselves. Yet when we… — Belinda Subraman Copy Share Image
“The pathological needs of the ego can only survive by creating contradictions to every thought. As you find a solution to one… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white. — David Sheff Copy Share Image
A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures — Carl Braaten Copy Share Image
Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of contradictions, abject poverty, and… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Take your practiced powers and stretch them out until they span the chasm between contradictions ... for the god wants to know… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
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