Contradictions Quotes

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Ayn Rand

Find, Wrong, Exist

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
E. O. Wilson

Truth, Spiritual, Humanity

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
Thomas Paine

Religion, Call, Blasphemy

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
Thomas Merton

Life, God, Ways

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
Michel de Montaigne

Work, Find, Keep

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis de Sales

Time, Try, Break

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?
Nikita Khrushchev

Together, Two, Away

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
Audre Lorde

Learning, Live, Keep

The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find.
Jerry Saltz

Deep, Hard, Find

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.
Bryant H. McGill

Life, May, Find

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
Andre Breton

Life, Death, Future

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.
Neale Donald Walsch

Philosophy, Win, Find

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.
Rod Stewart

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life, Human, System

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.
Haruki Murakami

Change, Work, Dream

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.
Edward Norton

Angry, Feeling, Wonderful

Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.
Gary Numan

Life, Live, Person

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.
Michelle Shocked

Living, Between, Themselves

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.
Michael Haneke

Reality, Real, Try

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
Antonio Tabucchi

Full, Tormented, Drawn

As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.
Hugo Weaving

Love, Character, Human

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.
Terry Eagleton

Work, Brave, Rest

I'm full of contradictions.
Juliana Hatfield

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.
Giancarlo Esposito

Love, Deal, Characters

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.
Justin Cronin

Human, Writer, Full

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
Garry Trudeau

Time, Live, Try

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
Eric Hobsbawm

Past, Others, Nation

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
Joan D. Vinge

Time, Human, Same

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