Best Contradictions Sayings
263 Contradictions quotes by 225 unique authors
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As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When…
— Jack Kornfield
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I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.
— Paul Krassner
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Isn’t everyone’s life a mass of contradictions?
— Noah Feldman
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There isn't anything to worry about between science and religion, because the contradictions are just in your own mind. Of course they are there, but…
— Unknown Author
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I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.
— Jenny Saville
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There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.
— Evan Parker
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India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype. But…
— Shashi Tharoor
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I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except…
— P D Ouspensky
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Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man for…
— Margaret Visser
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What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.
— Paul Haggis
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Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his times, but also…
— Richard Foreman
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It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.
— Richey Edwards
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Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all…
— Donna J. Haraway
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You need contradictions to make an ideal.
— Alex Shakar
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Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.
— Danielle LaPorte
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Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions —…
— Abraham Isaac Kook
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A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures
— Unknown Author
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If we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a spiritual life filled not only…
— Derrick Jensen
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Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the…
— Steven Saylor
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The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one that cannot be…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead him into a…
— Eugene Wigner
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A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served…
— Michael Pollan
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Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books,…
— Vernon Howard
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There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'" The obvious contradiction…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or…
— Andy Hargreaves
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