"Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical." — Tom Robbins

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• My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find… — Saint Augustine
• As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of… — Charles Baudelaire
• The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men… — Andrew Carnegie
• Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. — Carl von Clausewitz
• We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don't know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves… — Sogyal Rinpoche
• The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as… — Kurt Lewin
• We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women,… — Margaret Mead
• The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of… — W. Somerset Maugham
• Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them… — Marcel Proust
• Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a… — Annie Besant
• At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter… — Carl Sagan
• I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap… — Joshua Reynolds

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