Two Contradictory Quotes

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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Charles Baudelaire
Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your mind is bound… — Rajneesh
Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile. — Anne Hathaway
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a] he constantly proclaims belief in human equality, but they… — Steve Sailer
The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware,… — Simone Weil
Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts , of which… — Joseph Conrad
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. — George Orwell
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives… — Jeanette Winterson
In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might… — George Saunders
Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same… — Aidan Chambers
In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of… — Stephen Jay Gould
The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They… — E L Konigsburg

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