Best Contradictions Lines
263 Contradictions quotes by 225 unique authors
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There is only one inborn erroneous notion that we exist in order to be happy So long as we persist in this inborn error the…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a…
— Daniel Silva
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Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures…
— Peter York
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions
— George Orwell
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An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.
— Sigmund Freud
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Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little ... oh, I…
— Francoise Sagan
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Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.
— William Empson
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I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.
— Czeslaw Milosz
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The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely…
— Isamu Noguchi
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Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work…
— Kiki Smith
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The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Civil marriage is a very serious problem. I think that even the religious understands that we must look for some kind of a solution because…
— Avigdor Lieberman
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I love life and I love that about people... I adore the human experience, I really adore the ... I love the contradictions of people...…
— Jewel
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A healing journey into the inner conflicts and contradictions that separate spirit from self.
— Armand DiMele
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One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're…
— Criss Jami
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When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate…
— Bill Vaughan
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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape…
— Joseph Conrad
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My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the outward contradictions, I…
— David First
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Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.
— Matt Dillon
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Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.
— Terry Eagleton
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