Contradictions Quotes

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

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

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?

Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.

I'm full of contradictions.

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

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.

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.

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.

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

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.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

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.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Life is never free of contradictions.