Contradictory Quote by Neil Postman

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom…

— George Saunders

Contradiction is the essence of the universe.

— Fernando Pessoa

“To hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and humans are creatures who spend their lives trying to convince…

— Albert Camus

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency…

— William James

“The range of the human mind, the scale and depth of the metaphors the mind is capable of manufacturing as it grapples with the…

— Barry Holstun Lopez

“Sometimes things that appear completely irreconcilable and mutually exclusive serve a shared purpose that could not be achieved except through their contradiction.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“ Two contrary reasons . We must begin with that, otherwise we cannot understand anything and everything is heretical. And even at the end…

— Blaise Pascal

“There are some great mysteries here, which each of us is better placed to understand than any sceptical scientist or religious zealot, simply because…

— John Mellor

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

— Annie Lennox

“We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of…

— Thomas Merton

We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger.

— Giancarlo Esposito

“The basic idea is that all things in the universe are intertwined.”

— Stephen Richards