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.

Love is a contradiction.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

How can you expect me to be perfect...when I am full of contradictions.

Art can contradict Science.

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

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?

To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.

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

Love is a drama of contradictions.

I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.

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

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.

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

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.

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

We need to be ambivalent - in the essay, and in life too. Ambivalence - having mixed feelings, entertaining contradiction, living with fluctuation - is a widened embrace. It's about the coexistence of things, and in that light, we have no choice in the matter.

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

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

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

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

Consumer culture is contradiction in terms

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

In the contradiction lies the hope.