Contradiction Quotes

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.

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions.

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?

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply become impossible.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.'

Love is a contradiction.

Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence.

If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.

The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.

The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.

It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

Moderate Islam? That's a contradiction. It's going to be a long time before we see a new Koran, an equivalent to the New Testament. Attacks don't happen in the name of Buddhism or Christianity; nor do homosexuals get beaten up, as happens daily in Amsterdam.

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

Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that.

It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.

I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.