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

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

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

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.
Steve Ross

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

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

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
Harrison Birtwistle

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

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.
Evan Parker

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

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