Contradiction Quotes

I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.

You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms.

Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.

Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous.

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.

There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy, and how America can create interesting levels of contradiction.

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions.

If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.

We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.

Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.

When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 a.m. — that first blush of blue is where the night and day are trying to find harmony with each other.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

I realize that was becoming a contradiction in terms, especially after my friend Alison Krauss was shot and killed in Kent State in 1970 on campus by the National Guard.

I'm not a Jesus freak, I'm not a satan worshipper. I'm a contradiction, a juxtaposition.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

People are saying, "Oh my God, Saudi Arabia has changed." It's a contradiction. Do you want us to lead, or do you want us to play a supporting role?

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.

Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.

Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.

I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.

The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.

I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.'

Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife.

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.

You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.

We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.