To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius. — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
“Is this a Kurdish thing?’ ‘What?’ ‘Being deliberately contradictory?” — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection — Plato Copy Share Image
Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
On many issues, including on the use of nuclear weapons, it is not clear where [Donald] Trump stands, due to his contradictory… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Sometimes God's ways are not our ways. He may do something that seems unclear or even contradictory. We have to trust Him… — Benny Hinn Copy Share Image
Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing,… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Kant is not saying - about freedom or any other subject - anything of the form: "Not-p but we must assume that… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don't have one desire, you have many desires. Not only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Designing for me is a very complex process. There are many ideas that I want to express in one object, very often… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first noticeable thing to me about falling in love for the first time is how physical it is. But I've had… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I need to find avenues to express all of my creativity. There's always polarizing forces. Sometimes I feel like my work is… — Becky Stark Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“For thirty years now I have been studying my fellow-men. I do not know very much about them. I should certainly hesitate… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Christians must show that misery fits the good for heaven, while happiness prepares the bad for hell; that the wicked get all… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“She rose slowly. She didn't want to go. She also rather resented staying.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
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