Quotes on Contradiction

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except by an entirely new road, unlike anything hitherto known or used by us. But where this new or forgotten road began I was unable to say. I already knew then as an undoubted fact that beyond the thin film of false reality there existed another reality from which, for some reason, something separated us. The 'miraculous' was a penetration into this unknown reality.

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

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

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

There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we've got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech

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

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.

It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.

...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest pictures would then... find wholeness in the torn world.

If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other's equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms.

It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.