Contradiction Quotes - Page 2

• Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Song of Myself " l. 1324 (written 1855)

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

  Joan D. Vinge

  Behavior, Humans, Fascinating

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• 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

  God, Philosophy, Winning

  "Interview with Neale Donald Walsch, Educator, Lecturer and Bestselling Author of Conversations with God". Interview with Janice Hughes and Dennis Hughes, www.shareguide.com.

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• The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

  Mao Zedong

  Leadership, Responsibility, Work Out

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• 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

  Philosophy, Writing, Literature

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

  Evan Parker

  Philosophical, Paradox, Concern

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• There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.

  Charles Kennedy

  Country, Fire, Voice

  "Wrong war, wrong time, wrong enemy, warns Labour rebel" by Nicholas Watt, Michael White, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2003.

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

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Different, Stories, Opera

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• The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Order, Live In The Moment, Language

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

  Christian, Teaching, Liberty

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• Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

  Roland Allen

  Spiritual, Men, Church

  Roland Allen (2012). “The Reform of the Ministry: A Study in the Work of Roland Allen”, p.24, The Lutterworth Press

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• We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Priorities, World, Danger

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• 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

  Spiritual, Essence, Views

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.391, Vintage

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• Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

  John Hench

  Cities, Lasts, Parks

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• A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Gentleman, Pugs, Noses

  Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.1340, Library of America

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• Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

  Erich Fromm

  Intelligent, Men, Animal

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.64, Routledge

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• Flight is intolerable contradiction.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Flight

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.5, Northwestern University Press

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• The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

  Kedar Joshi

  World, Paradox, Universe

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• It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not going to leap out at you and scream. I also can't control how a book is marketed. To say the book marketing is aggressive, fine, I'm happy with that. Push the book. That doesn't mean that my personality or writing style changes.

  David Bergen

  Book, Mean, Writing

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• No legislative, administrative or judicial activity in the Hong Kong SAR is allowed to contradict the Basic Law, let alone to go against the Basic Law.

  Wu Bangguo

  Law, Hong Kong, Judicial

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• But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction.

  Damien Hirst

  Photography, Taken, Light

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• Civil marriage is a very serious problem. I think that even the religious understands that we must look for some kind of a solution because we have some contradictions. . I'm sure there are many solutions.

  Avigdor Lieberman

  Religious, Thinking, Looks

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• ...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, and a body that is worth about 98¢.

  Ernest Becker

  Men, Self, People

  "The Denial of Death". Book by Ernest Becker, 1973.

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• Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

  Robert Redford

  Sadness, Thinking, Facts

  "American Dreamer". Interview with Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2004.

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• I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

  Michel de Montaigne

  May, Said, Wells

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