Contradiction Quotes - Page 21

• Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his times, but also of the communism that was always disappointing his deepest hopes. In a book that makes Brecht’s struggle to reveal these hidden contradictions its central theme, Glahn issues, by implication, a call to arms to today’s artists—who are faced with a world that seems to defy attempts to treat the global crisis with an art that is rarely more than notes on ‘local’ angst.

  Richard Foreman

  Art, Struggle, Book

  4 Copy quote

• Love is a drama of contradictions.

  Franz Kafka

  Drama, Love Is

  17 Copy quote

• In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick's vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of grace and of mystery, of humour and contradictions. It was a gift to us, and now it's a legacy.

  Steven Spielberg

  Grace, Vision, Legacy

  13 Copy quote

• The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state. I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

  Avigdor Lieberman

  Jewish Values, Vision, Democracy

  "The Rise of Avigdor Lieberman". Ben Lynfield, The Nation, December 14, 2006.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• That it is not same-gender relationships that are destroying marriage. What is actually destroying marriage is high unemployment, incarceration, a lack of education and ministers living in contradiction where they speak about holiness on one side but yet are living in adultery on the other.

  Otis Moss III

  Unemployment, Holiness, Sides

  9 Copy quote

• Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.

  Louis Aragon

  Real, Eruption, Absence

  6 Copy quote

• There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, "Le jeu et les moi." It's impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound. It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.

  Agnes Varda

  Beautiful, Song, Nice

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

  Simone Weil

  Levers, Transcendence

  6 Copy quote

• The contradiction [trying to use Russian model to reshape Italy] grew to such an extent that I felt totally cut off from the communist world and, in the end, from politics. That was fortunate. The idea of putting literature in second place, after politics, is an enormous mistake, because politics almost never achieves its ideals.

  Italo Calvino

  Mistake, Cutting, Ideas

  4 Copy quote

• I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Thinking, Way, Accepting

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions of sad stories in this giant sea of immigration, poverty, misery and contradictions. So much anger, frustration and fury.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Frustration, Istanbul, Sea

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.

  John Gay

  Risk, Fiction, Tongue

  John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.21

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible, arguing about the Bible, interpreting it. So I don't connect prayer or scriptures with any particular religion so it's not a contradiction in my life.

  Patti Smith

  Prayer, Teenager, Home

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Art, Tasks, Manifest

  Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the label on the can of worms.

  Julian Critchley

  Hands, Political, Doubt

  16 Copy quote

• Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Exclusive, Love Is

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.120, Open Road Media

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beautiful, Awful, Sides

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.251, Clap Publishing, LLC.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than in the apex of its development; if they can be made to understand that the conflicts and contradictions of society can only be resolved by scientific long-range planning-then we will succeed in maintaining what civilization we have and drive onward to greater culture.

  Joost Meerloo

  Confused, Men, Civilization

  6 Copy quote

• Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

  Albert Camus

  Reality, Utopia

  Albert Camus (2007). “Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947”, p.261, Princeton University Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Thinking, Destiny, Mirrors

  "The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.

  Richard Baxter

  Christian, Humble

  "The Reformed Pastor: Shewing the Nature of the Pastoral Work".

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not a mere ornament of a Christian, but an essential part of the new creature: it is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true Christian, and not humble.

  Richard Baxter

  Christian, Humble, Humility

  Richard Baxter (1838). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: With a Preface, Giving Some Account of the Author, and of this Edition of His Practical Works; an Essay on His Genius, Works and Times; and a Portrait : in Four Volumes”, p.405

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these contradictions. It is not the instrument of government of the dominant groups in order to gain the consent and exercise hegemony over the subaltern classes. It is the expression of subaltern classes who want to educate themselves in the art of government and who have an interest in knowing all truths, even the unpleasant ones, and in avoiding the impossible deceptions of the upper class, and even more their own.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Art, Philosophy, Exercise

  237 Copy quote

• Developing a character with genuine depth requires a focus on not just desire but how the character deals with frustration of her desires, as well as her vulnerabilities, her secrets, and especially her contradictions. This development needs to be forged in scenes, the better to employ your intuition rather than your intellect.

  David Corbett

  Character, Frustration, Focus

  "The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV". Book by David Corbett, January 29, 2013.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Heart, Dreamer, Mind

  46 Copy quote