Contradiction Quotes
Contradiction Quote of the day
Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.
Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.
When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy
Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply become impossible.
The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.
A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.
Praise is a contradiction of pride. Pride says 'looks at me,' but praise longs for people to see Jesus.
I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.
After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.
Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence.
If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.
I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion
Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people
That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.
It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.
The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.
I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.
Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that.
An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms
I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy
To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.
I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce. It's a contradiction.
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.
Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.
