Contradiction Quotes - Page 29

• No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.

  Terence McKenna

  Attitude, Atmosphere, West

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• Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Students, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

  Karen O

  Stars, Rocks, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.

  Lisa Lutz

  Dental Floss, Mess, Traits

  Lisa Lutz (2011). “The Spellmans Strike Again: Document #4”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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• A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

  Chaim Potok

  Dark, Strange, Instruments

  Chaim Potok (2010). “Davita's Harp”, p.77, Ballantine Books

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• I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Philosophy, Form, Poetry Is

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• To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions

  George Orwell

  Ideas, Inheritance, Accepting

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• A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Unity, Might, Harmony

  Lawrence Kushner (2010). “I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego”, p.150, Jewish Lights Publishing

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• If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose.

  John Cowper Powys

  Purpose, Action, Compromise

  John Cowper Powys (1944). “The art of growing old”

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• An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Reality, Degrees

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• First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.

  Anita Roddick

  Fun, Opposites, Firsts

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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• Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Envy, Silence, Arise

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• A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all things honestly we see everything has a character of paradox to it. Everything, including ourselves.

  Richard Rohr

  Character, Looks, Sides

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• There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfectly Good, Ideas, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.557, Manonmani Publishers

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• The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Would Be, Infinite

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.78, editionNEXT.com

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• God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is nothing but a mass of contradictions.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mass

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2610, Manonmani Publishers

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• When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 a.m. — that first blush of blue is where the night and day are trying to find harmony with each other.

  Shekhar Kapur

  Night, Blue, Trying

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• Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

  Alastair Reynolds

  Government, Self, Masters

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• No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?

  Elie Wiesel

  Beautiful, Skinny, Illegal

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• I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.

  Anne Roiphe

  Believe, Mean, Opportunity

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• Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Change, Would Be, Unchangeable

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.380, Manonmani Publishers

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• As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.

  Amy Waldman

  Reality, Confusion, Add

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• Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.

  Amy Waldman

  Thinking, People, Confusion

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• The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury?

  Ezra Heywood

  Kings, Men, Thinking

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• It's not hard to see why. Although it adds to our overall understanding of Benghazi, even a cursory read reveals sloppy errors of fact and numerous internal contradictions. For instance, on one page, the report has a top intelligence officer sending an email from Benghazi on September 15, before a crucial White House meeting on the Benghazi talking points.

  Stephen F. Hayes

  Talking, White, Errors

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