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Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

Muriel Spark (2014). “Loitering with Intent”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.205

Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?

Richard Baxter (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.206

Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God.

James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.38, Moody Publishers

The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.

"Materialism and Empirio-criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy (1908)". Book by Vladimir Lenin. Collected Works, Volume 14,

It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being

Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

"#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.

Stephen M. R. Covey (2012). “Smart Trust”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.15, Clube de Autores

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

Andrew Carnegie, Benjamin Franklin (2015). “The ABC of Money: Including The Way to Wealth and The Gospel of Wealth”, p.76, Cosimo Classics