Contradictions Quotes
263 quotes by 228 authors
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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
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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
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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
— Thomas Paine
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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
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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
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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
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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions…
— Sigmund Freud
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In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
— Henry Adams
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what…
— Jonathan Swift
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Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than…
— Thomas Hood
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We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
— George Santayana
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Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
— Vernon Howard
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Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
— Jules Michelet
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If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is not…
— Heinrich Hertz
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Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of…
— Fritjof Capra
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If you were dealing with the accumulated repressions of only one lifetime, it would be different. But these are the repressions of numerous lives. Nobody…
— Rajneesh
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Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object and the subject,…
— Rajneesh
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