It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Despite the contradictory advice circulated in the late 90s, if you wanna be my lover, please do not get with my friends... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“Truth may be mysterious, indeed even paradoxical, but never, never, never contradictory.” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities. — Frank X. Barron Copy Share Image
When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The idea that there is some kind of contradiction between the in-depth study of God’s Word, so as to know what God… — James Robert White Copy Share Image
There are contradictory tendencies in American society. There's a huge range of activities that one can engage in that mark it as… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise,… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
I'm always kind of contradictory to what people want and what's selling. But maybe I should care now because I have two… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderes behind it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The inclusion of just one contradiction (like 0 = 1) in an axiomatic system allows any statement about the objects in the… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Away from Lev, she craves his need for her. When with him, it enervates. Why is that? She cannot help it. Nothing… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense,… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to die. I was a teenager. It was the hardest thing I’d ever gone through. It’d be… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
To keep doing this job [draw political cartoons] week after week, I think you have to want to change the world, while… — Tom Tomorrow Copy Share Image
It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Woman is the symbol to man of the uncleanness of bodily existence, of which he purifies himself by putting her to noble… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The Church has realized that anything and everything can be built up on a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I make my music to express everything I feel is necessary to communicate at a given time. Through music, I can express… — Sophie Copy Share Image
You can prove almost anything with the evidence of a small enough segment of time. How often, in any search for truth,… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image