Contradiction Quotes - Page 5

If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.

A successful object is one which exists beyond its own reality, which creates a dual (and not merely interactlve) relation (with its users also), a relation of contradiction, misappropriation and destablilisation.

Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions.

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.

Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.

I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat a number of contradictions. That happens to be my creative temperament.

Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.

You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.

So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.

Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.

Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.