Quotes of: Contradict Keyword

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

Joan D. Vinge

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

Roland Barthes

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

Thomas Paine

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

William James

Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.

Candide

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

Butcher Bird: A Novel of The Dominion

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

Herbert Read

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

Just Kids

..think about the contradictions and complexities that beset people.

Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

Twilight of the Idols, Or, How to Philosophize With the Hammer

No. They believe we’re dumb animals. And they won’t contradict their bigotry by listening with their own ears.

Witches Monstrous

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Paul Auster

All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.

Robert Creeley

Don’t worry about the haters… They are just angry because the truth you speak contradicts the lie they live.

Steve Maraboli

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

Thomas Malthus

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

Roger Nash Baldwin

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

Freda Adler

Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God.

Robert Grosseteste

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

Garrett Hardin