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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
Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes ... -- Muriel Spark
Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?" -- Paul Beatty
Love is an act of faith, not an exchange. Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side. -- Paulo Coelho
Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity. -- Chinua Achebe
Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little corners and parks; well-tended, middle-class sections as well as an alternative scene; technology centers for innovative youth and social facilities for older people. -- Charles Landry
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Life is never free of contradictions. -- Manmohan Singh
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. -- Thomas Merton
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. -- Audre Lorde
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time. -- Joan D. Vinge
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. -- Thomas Paine
Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that? -- Nikita Khrushchev
Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster. -- Gary Numan
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Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are. -- Robert Redford
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life. -- Fernand Braudel
Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity. -- Paulo Coelho
I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair to good feminists. If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one. I am a mess of contradictions. -- Roxane Gay
The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation. -- James P. Carse
I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world. -- Daniel Silva
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.' -- Kitty Kelley
Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred - Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned parents who knew Freud and Jung never saw the contradictions in feeding us on them. -- Peter York
I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions. -- Edward Norton
We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete, for the tensions and the contradictions within them will never be eliminated or resolved. That challenge is essential to their power and their attraction. War stories matter. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world. -- Joseph Fiennes
I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities of R&B music in the '70s and '80s, will continue to be one of the most recognized and formidable human beings that we've ever produced in our tradition. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older. -- Kris Kristofferson
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno. -- Italo Calvino
I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams. -- Chris Ofili
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
Poetry dovetails contradictions. -- Marilyn Hacker
Paradox likes contradictions with exits. -- Mason Cooley
Love is a drama of contradictions. -- Franz Kafka
I am a mass of contradictions. -- Maureen Johnson
Life is never free of contradictions -- Manmohan Singh
Isn't everyone's life a mass of contradictions? -- Noah Feldman
Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions. -- Genrich Altshuller
I hold myself accountable for my contradictions. -- Caroline Myss
Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions. -- Jules Michelet
You need contradictions to make an ideal. -- Alex Shakar
Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions. -- Shirley MacLaine
My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions, -- Kurt Cobain
Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
I am a man of contradictions, I suppose. -- Rod Stewart
Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy. -- Tim Blake Nelson
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions. -- Charles Caleb Colton
To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions -- George Orwell
I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions. -- Antonio Tabucchi
We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I like complicated women. I like women with strength and contradictions... -- Naomi Watts
Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises. -- Ayn Rand
The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions. -- James Lileks
It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being -- Sergei Eisenstein
The will is a product of integrity, not a child of contradictions. -- Nilakanta Sri Ram
Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity. -- Richard Kadrey
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis. -- William Empson
One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions. -- Jean-Pierre de Caussade
The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions. -- David Hume
A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions. -- Ciaran Hinds
In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed. -- Gore Vidal
self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions. -- Vivian Gornick
We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites -- Eric Jerome Dickey
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence. -- Peter Deunov
Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together -- Pat Colander
A healing journey into the inner conflicts and contradictions that separate spirit from self. -- Armand DiMele
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour. -- David Harvey
What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings. -- Paul Haggis
How can you expect me to be perfect...when I am full of contradictions. -- Abraham ibn Ezra
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white. -- David Sheff
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. -- Harrison Birtwistle
In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening. -- Matt Dillon
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. -- Evan Parker
You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them. -- John Burdett
We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding. -- Edward Teller
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is. -- Janusz Korczak
Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions. -- Roberto Assagioli
If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions. -- Ai Yazawa
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. -- George Santayana
Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE -- Tristan Tzara
It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions. -- Rajneesh
Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them. -- William Blake
You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character. -- Richard Steele
We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us. -- Lisa Lutz
I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy -- Czeslaw Milosz
It's important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are. -- Richey Edwards
I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions. -- Giancarlo Esposito
The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible. -- William Poundstone
There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run. -- David Harvey
Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy. -- Tom Clancy
How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over. -- Remy de Gourmont
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole. -- Danielle LaPorte
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates. -- Thomas E. Mann
One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life. -- Chaim Potok
The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem. -- Ernest Becker
Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. -- Anne Michaels
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. -- Henry Adams
...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any. -- Thomas Paine
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with. -- Garry Trudeau
These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides. -- Swami Vivekananda
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory. -- Vernon Howard
I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy. -- Paul Krassner
The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find. -- Jerry Saltz
I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions. -- Michelle Shocked
A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures -- Carl Braaten
I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends. -- Czeslaw Milosz

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