Quotes of: Contradict Keyword

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.

Richard Savage

My criticism of procedure is that when in his discussion he arrives at a contradiction, he construes it as a crisis in the universe.

Alfred North Whitehead

The principles of liberalism can have a real existence only in conjunction with a police system. Anarchism is an attempt to cleanse liberalism of the police. But just as pure oxygen is impossible to breathe, so liberalism without the police principle...

History of the Russian Revolution

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.

Brad Holland

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.

A Kind of Testament

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

Summa Theologica, 5 Vols

There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.

Rebecca MacKinnon

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

Sally Schneider

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

Simone Weil

But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.

Megan Fox

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.

Ken Ham

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

Paul Ricoeur

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Blaise Pascal

I think there's an interesting contradiction of having a young face and an old soul. There's something funny about it, and it also allows you to reinvent being old.

Matt Smith

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

Robert Redford

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

Audre Lorde

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

John Burdett

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Blaise Pascal

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

George Santayana

We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.

Nursultan Nazarbayev