Contradictions Quotes

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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
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
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
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. — Henry Adams
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
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
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
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. — George Santayana
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory. — Vernon Howard
Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions. — Jules Michelet
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
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
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
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
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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