Contradictory Quotes

218 Contradictory quotes by 191 unique authors

Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in… — James Q. Wilson
Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true. — Nigella Lawson
Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with… — Mary Balogh
Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth. — Asger Jorn
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the… — Ken Wilber
I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and the… — Scott Lynch
What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this...to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different and the most… — Gerhard
Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole. — Danielle LaPorte
When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your early years; there… — Rebecca Solnit
No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate… — Paul Kurtz
Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism. — Sydney Schanberg
It is impossible! It has never happened - it cannot happen in the very nature of things. Marriage is something against nature. Marriage is an… — Rajneesh
You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not… — Edwin Meese
I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist… — Hugh Prather
Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders. — Greg Egan
You can prove almost anything with the evidence of a small enough segment of time. How often, in any search for truth, the answer of… — Edwin Way Teale
A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories — George Eliot
In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because… — Swami Vivekananda
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of… — Albert Camus
I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say… — Jerry Brown
Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory? In… — Billy Graham
You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to do my job… — Bruce Springsteen
Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or… — Lukas Foss
Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge and practice circulate… — Dean Spade

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