Contradictions Quote by Thomas Merton

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

— William Blake

Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals]. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant…

— Thomas Merton

“Our contradictions are never so to ourselves.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Every one of us is a walking set of contradictions. The great among us are no different, except that their contradictions tend to run…

— Jeffrey S. Young

“Paradox reconciles all contradictions.”

— Patrick Leigh Fermor

“Confusion must prevail and Contradiction is a way of life.”

— Sharad Trivedi

Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and…

— Gottfried Leibniz

“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

“Contradiction is the seed of conciousness. I knew, from the pain of contradiction, that I was. And what I was.”

— Joss Whedon

We all live with contradictions.

— Wyatt Cenac

“Any system that contradicts itself can never be wrong, and welcome to the world of contradictions…”

— Steve Merrick

“This is where we work, in the interstices of ignorance, the land of contradiction and silence, planning to convince you with the seemingly known,…

— Julian Barnes