Contradiction Quote by James Lileks Download Open image “The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions.” — James Lileks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contradiction Contradictions Forever Forever Turns Lathe Contradictions Mind Mind Forever Psychology Turns Turns Lathe
“Pity the theory which sets itself in opposition to the mind! It cannot repair this contradiction by any humility, and the humbler it is… — Carl Von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“When mind uses itself without the hands it runs the circle and may go too fast… The hand that shapes the mind into clay… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Nothing is ever actually invented by the mind. The mind puts things together and constructs false "ideas” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“In thinking the of the eternal, we must link the eternal with the accidentality of our thinking” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thinking Thinking is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part. When the idea enters the mind,… — Sa'd Ud Din Mahmud Shabistari Copy Share Image
A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Both the fanatical believers and the fixed attitude people are loud in their scorn of what they call “woolly minds.”… [But it] is the… — J.B. Priestley Copy Share Image
It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works of creation… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
Do not carry a spirit of contradiction, for it is to be freighted with stupidity and with peevishness, and your intelligence should plot against… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“So Jane was getting married. Well, more power to her. In fact, let me tighten those straps. Any word from the governor on the… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
There are three stages to a man's life. 1. He laughs at Clark Griswold. 2. He sympathizes deeply with Clark Griswold. 3. He laughs at Clark Griswold. — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Wait until France gets a hard shot in the nose. Wait until France reacts with some nasty work. They'll get a golf-clap from the… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
I’ll feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when you’ve gone over to the Dark Side. But I’ll be fine. That’s the… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
“If you can pick the baby up without him squirting our of your hands like a bar of soap in the shower, he's not… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
The same people who accuse America of coddling dictators are sputtering with bilious fury because we actually deposed one. — James Lileks Copy Share Image
And I don't want posture lessons from a country that spent the last 20 years flopping on its back and grabbing its ankles when… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
It takes a particularly rarified variety of idiot to look at a Jew-hating fascist with a small mustache - and decide that his opponent… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
“She was moving slowly, appearing to come no closer. Perhaps she was losing ground against the earth's rotation.” — James Lileks Copy Share Image
If you think the ’80s were dumber than the ’70s, either you weren’t there or you weren’t paying attention. — James Lileks Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance,… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ''the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive in mathematics… — Mark Kac Copy Share Image
“In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“A truth is not necessary, because we negatively are not able to conceive the actual existence of the opposite thereof;but a truth is necessary… — R.L. Dabney Copy Share Image
The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
![“Both the fanatical believers and the fixed attitude people are loud in their scorn of what they call “woolly minds.”… [But it] is the woolly mind that combines scepticism about everything with credulity about everything. Being woolly it has no hard edges. It is easy, pliant, yet it has its own…” quote by J.B. Priestley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/05b/j-b-priestley-2-61184_psychology_both-the-fanatical-believers-and-the-fix_620899.jpg)
