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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. -- Ayn Rand
Good morning is a contradiction of terms. -- Jim Davis
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. -- Groucho Marx
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. -- William Blake
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death. -- Paul Ricoeur
I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. -- Charlie Chaplin
Moderate Islam ? That's a contradiction. -- Geert Wilders
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence. -- Simone Weil
Contradiction is the essence of the universe. -- Fernando Pessoa
Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption -- John Lancaster Spalding
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. -- J. L. Austin
I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. -- Elia Kazan
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. -- Georges Bataille
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. -- George Bernard Shaw
My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate." -- Paul Beatty
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. -- Dorothy Height
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth. -- Simone Weil
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. -- Audre Lorde
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. -- Walt Whitman
Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole. -- Terry Goodkind
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. -- Blaise Pascal
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. -- Saint Francis de Sales
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. -- Simone Weil
...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. -- Michel de Montaigne
You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions. -- Bryant H. McGill
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. -- Douglas Adams
We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed. -- Nursultan Nazarbayev
After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter -- Alfred Russel Wallace
The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity. -- Simone Weil
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it. -- Eric Hobsbawm
You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of all-all this orderliness, and at the heart, impossibility. Contradiction. Heaven built on the foundations of hell. -- David Leavitt
Contradiction is the heart and soul of character and drama. You're always looking for it. I loved her so much I hit her; that's character. I loved her so much I hit her again; that's even more character. -- Paul Schrader
Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture. -- Vivienne Westwood
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. -- Blaise Pascal
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ. -- Fidel Castro
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. -- Roland Barthes
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. -- David Hume
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. -- George Santayana
I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell. -- Kim Elizabeth
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. -- Mao Zedong
There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality. -- Ayn Rand
I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction. -- Wesley Snipes
With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals. -- Michel Onfray
I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible. -- Julian Baggini
Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are. -- Colin Quinn
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. -- Orson Welles
You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox. -- Deepak Chopra
When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 A.M. That first blush of blue is where the night and day are trying to find harmony with each other. Harmony is the notes that Mozart didn't give you, but somehow the contradiction of his notes suggest that. All contradictions of his notes suggest the harmony. -- Shekhar Kapur
Love is a contradiction. -- Cassandra Clare
Flight is intolerable contradiction. -- Muriel Rukeyser
In the contradiction lies the hope. -- Bertolt Brecht
The world is full of contradiction. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Woman's at best a contradiction still. -- Alexander Pope
Consumer culture is contradiction in terms -- Tibor Kalman
Holy War is a contradiction of terms... -- Elie Wiesel
Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself. -- Erich Fromm
What you call 'contradiction' I call 'complement'. -- Agnostic Zetetic
I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers. -- Jean-Luc Godard
Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction. -- Swami Vivekananda
People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction. -- John Webster
An Italian university is a contradiction in terms. -- Indro Montanelli
A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms. -- Rick Warren
I always look for contradiction in a character. -- Rebecca Hall
A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction. -- Mason Cooley
Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states and without contradiction -- G. Willow Wilson
The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox. -- Kedar Joshi
Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it. -- Mason Cooley
Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms. -- Stephen Covey
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Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality. -- Albert Camus
Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms. -- Richie Benaud
Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God. -- Thomas Aquinas
Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction. -- Criss Jami
The illusion is reality. The only contradiction is the observer. -- Lionel Suggs
An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction. -- Thomas Brooks
Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others. -- Tryon Edwards
A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms. -- Israel Shahak
Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be. -- Bono
Avoid contradiction. Clear institutional identity helps give you the competitive edge. -- Marty Sklar
A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms. -- Edgar Allan Poe
"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms. -- Pope Pius XI
Let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully. -- Martin Buber
A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy. -- Deng Xiaoping
What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another. -- Alastair Reynolds
I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction. -- Cillian Murphy
We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction. -- R. C. Sproul
The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms. -- Barry Unsworth
Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being. -- Ananda Coomaraswamy
A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil. -- Stephen Charnock
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is a contradiction to be a true Christian and not humble. -- Richard Baxter
Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that. -- Hunter S. Thompson
You canâ??t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms. -- Duane Michals
The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit. -- Mason Cooley
When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction. -- John Gay
There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction. -- G. Campbell Morgan
I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms. -- Clive Barker
An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms -- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the tongue to deal in fiction -- John Gay
I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth -- Patti Smith
Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun. -- Roger Rosenblatt
The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms. -- Ayn Rand
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom. -- Albert Camus
The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction. -- Benjamin Tucker
We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world. -- Mother Teresa
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral. -- Max Beerbohm

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