Contradiction Quotes

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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only… — Mikhail Bakunin
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an… — Douglas Adams
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. — Roland Barthes
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. — Georges Bataille
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. — William Blake
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined,… — Andre Breton
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ. — Fidel Castro
I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight,… — Charlie Chaplin
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost… — Winston Churchill
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world. — Simone de Beauvoir
...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any. — Thomas Paine
Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of… — Taisen Deshimaru
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies. — L. Sprague de Camp
You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers… — Anthony F. C. Wallace
In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable. — Sigmund Freud
The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result… — C.S. Lewis
The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls… — Friedrich Nietzsche
People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger. — V. K. Krishna Menon

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