Contradiction Quotes

A pacifist male is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described "pacifists" are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind changes, they hoist the Jolly Roger.

Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself.

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.

He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

There is no contradiction between true religion and science

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.

I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction.

Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.

The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.

I am, like anybody else, full of contradictions and personality traits, and I don't know which ones to speak from as a stand-up or what aspects of myself to ask an audience to identify with.

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.

There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.

I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.

A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures

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

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

Contradiction is the essence of the universe.

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.

Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.

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

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

There were a lot of contradictions between Marcello's[ Mastroianni] public persona and who he was in private. The fact that Italy chose to incarnate him as a model of beauty stupefied him.

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.

The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions.

As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity.

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.

The world is full of contradiction.