Contradictions Quotes

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.

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'm full of 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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 am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

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

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as 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.

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

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are.

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.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

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