Contradiction Quotes

The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise consumption by major reduction ofindividualincometaxrates.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.

We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it.

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions.

The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

I am a mass of contradictions.

It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often feels like a brutal trivialization of reality.

Capitalism is, in Mao's language, the main contradiction in the world today and so our efforts have to be focused on ending this system and making a new one.

Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.

I like complicated women. I like women with strength and contradictions.

There's not one person in the world that's not a living, walking contradiction.

Isn’t everyone’s life a mass of contradictions?

Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?"

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids.

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything supports everything else.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms.

I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.

My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there... was in contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world.

Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.

There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is nothing but a mass of contradictions.

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.

Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.

"You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the job description, Mr. Maxfield."

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.