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
It seems significant that according to quantum physics the indestructibility of energy on one hand which expresses its timeless existence and the… — Wolfgang Pauli 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
The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the… — Andrew Michael Ramsay Copy Share Image
The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory. — Ivan Doig Copy Share Image
The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My idea is that the Koran is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time… — Gerd R. Puin 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
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I make one image—though 'make' is not the right word; I let, perhaps, an image be 'made' emotionally in me and then… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors. — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I didn't believe in systems. Everything human was imperfect and ultimately absurd. What did I believe in then? In humor. In laughing… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but… — Nico Muhly 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
We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it's not… — Jerry Garcia 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
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
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
