Contradiction Quotes - Page 8

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures

The fact is that there is a contradiction going on but our brains don't like contradiction. So when Moe hits Curly on the head with a sledgehammer and Curly says, "ow" and Moe says, "Serves you right Numbskull", you can say that's because they're separate beings, and that's true.

There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.

You get a sense that it's okay to have good stuff and still claim a relationship with God. So enslaved Africans rethought their predicament in a way that entailed getting good stuff, material stuff, and having a deep relationship with God. There was no contradiction. And the idea just moves forward from there.

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

I am, like anybody else, full of contradictions and personality traits, and I don't know which ones to speak from as a stand-up or what aspects of myself to ask an audience to identify with.

Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.

I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction.

You need contradictions to make an ideal.

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

There is no contradiction between true religion and science