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Contradiction Quotes by Simone Weil
- Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
- Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
- When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
More Contradiction Quotes
- On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it;… — Thomas Carlyle
- He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that… — Douglas Adams
- What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of… — Roland Barthes
- I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey,… — Jonathan Mayhew
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- I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy,… — 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… — Winston Churchill