It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions. — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is easier to think of the world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the… — Simone De Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Far from the quick and easy exit that Leave campaigners once promised, Brexit has become mired in its own internal contradictions. — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions. — Gustav Heinemann Copy Share Image
Love is an act of faith, not an exchange. Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“We live in our tales of ourselves. . . and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“You see, Mama Harriet, the conundrum that you encountered is the same set of contradictions that we encounter. We had a Black… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
I think that's where we can both seize upon the contradictions and push them to limits that these people would not consider,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price… — Giorgio Napolitano Copy Share Image
We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“...new theories and new movements do not develop in a vacuum, they arise to spearhead the necessary social solutions to new problems… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
Life is full of contradictions:- To a pessimist its a real struggle. To pragmatist its just living. To an optimist is full… — Nghi Lam Copy Share Image
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Now is life very solid or very shifting? I am haunted by the two contradictions. This has gone on forever; goes down… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and never can be fathomed, for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Children with autism are constantly testing and pursuing truth. They are a bundle of contradictions. They love order and routine, yet often… — Adele Devine 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
“Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But on what… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
“It is only because a dreamer has temporarily lost the desire to turn his eyes toward more distant horizons that he believes… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions -… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier… — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
“Contradictions are the impossible chasms that create forever separations. God is the forever bridge that creates impossible reunions.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Or is it that alongside this track runs other lines - repetitions, variations, contradictions - echoes of all those lives we failed… — Alan Bilton Copy Share Image
The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I chose to do art in the way I always do it, which is with all the crazy contradictions of life in… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
