Contradictions Quotes

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Life is never free of contradictions.

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

Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.

As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

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

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

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

Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.

I'm full of contradictions.

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.

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.

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.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.

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.

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

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.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

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

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

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?

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