Contradiction Quotes - Page 28

• In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Practice, Principles

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.50, Booklassic

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• When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Acceptance, Men

  Sigmund Freud, Scientific Literature Corporation (1961). “The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

  Tom Clancy

  Philosophy, Self Pity, Victim

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• what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible and imaginable contingency and contradiction, Life. Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgust,stupidity, sickness, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, piles of corpses. what can you do about it, my poor friend?

  Blaise Cendrars

  Jealousy, Lying, Volcanoes

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• Love is an act of faith, not an exchange. Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love Is, Making Love, Sides

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• In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

  Gore Vidal

  Causes, Facts, Birth

  Gore Vidal (2002). “Creation: a novel”, Doubleday Books

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• 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.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Firsts, Kind

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 07, 2013

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• I was looking for someplace to store all the things I was feeling - the friction, the contradictions, the unmerciful truth - but my heart, my soul, my eyes and ears and even my toes were locking their doors. They wouldn't let me in. For safety reasons. I had no choice but to throw the feelings away.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Heart, Eye, Doors

  "How to Kill a Rock Star". Book by Tiffanie DeBartolo, 2005.

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• What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Pride, Men

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• I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

  Agatha Christie

  Information, Assumption, Failing

  Agatha Christie (1965). “Poirot loses a client”, Dell Pub Co

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• There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Answers, Mysterious, Term

  "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, February 28, 2010 - March 14, 2015.

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• I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Giving Up, Two, Balance

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• We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Psych, Desire, Belief

  A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.107, Penguin

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• I think you’re freaked about what happened at Cambridge. I think it scared you." “I’ve been through worse, Bex,” I said, joining her on the lower stairs. “Way worse.” “Oh, not the attack.” Bex raised her finger in contradiction. “What happened before the attack. I think you saw the future. Which is kind of freaky when - two months ago - you didn’t think you were going to have one.

  Ally Carter

  Thinking, Two, Joining

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• If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Men, Say Anything, Reason

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• That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.

  V. K. Krishna Menon

  Expression, Justice, Diversity

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• People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Clever, People, Tolerate

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• The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Sleep, Passion

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• The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result is not "the Word of God" in the sense that every passage in itself, gives impeccable science or history. It carries the Word of God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Bible, Biblical, Errors

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• In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

  Sigmund Freud

  Running, Atheist, Long

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers discontinuities in the data, perhaps, or in one's own thinking; then the act of writing forces you to work harder to resolve these contradictions.

  Anthony F. C. Wallace

  Hard Work, Writing, Science

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• Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Buddhist, Attitude, Opposites

  " Zen and the Art of Systems Analysis : Meditations on Computer Systems Development" by Patrick McDermott, (p. xix), 2002.

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• ...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.

  Thomas Paine

  Atheist, Lying, Book

  Thomas Paine (1821). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.58

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• It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Atheist, Thinking, World

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• The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

  Jean Cocteau

  Writing, Reality, Spirit

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