Character Quote by Muriel Spark

“One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate…

— Joseph Conrad

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

— Anonymous

I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.

— Paul Lieberstein

I think, us as human beings, we hold multitudes and contradictions. We are the definition of a contradiction and that's what makes us human.…

— Myha'la

“When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and of psychic…

— John Russell

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of…

— Thomas Jefferson

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

— Carl Jung

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

— David Harvey

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

— George Santayana

We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs…

— Arthur Machen