Quotes About Contradictory

Marxism, rather than an affirmation of a future that is necessary, is much more a judgment of the present as contradictory and intolerable.

If someone said 'diametrically,' could 'opposed' be far behind?

And I hate him and love him and curse him and feel sorry for him, all at the same time.

Yet his experiments led him to a contradictory conclusion. Programming did not teach people how to think—he realized he knew too many narrow-minded programmers for that to be so, now that he considered the question in depth. The truth was the converse: Every individual's ingrained way of thinking affected how he or she programmed.

Jose Saramago remarks, "The human spirit, though, how often do we need to say it, is the favourite home of contradictions, indeed they do not seem to prosper or even find viable living conditions outside it."6

a masterly performance. Fulsome and vapid, laden with insincere warmth and hidden barbs, his introductory speech had nevertheless left no legitimate grounds for complaint.

you just had to go with the president's whims. As for the president, it was quite clear that deciding between contradictory policy approaches was not his style of leadership. He simply hoped that difficult decisions would make themselves.

Her professional life could thus be summarised as teaching contradictory absurdities to social-climbing cretins, even if she avoided formulating it to herself in such stark terms.

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires. Robert Collier

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Mindy wore a lot of hats. Ivy League graduate, actor, comedian, playwright, inveterate gossip, weirdly pro-gun Republican, outspoken advocate of conspicuous

For the practitioner, the understanding of wisdom and compassion—and the inherent tension between the two—is not to be resolved on a theoretical level, but to be experienced in one's own mind and body. In this way one finds emptiness and compassion to be mutually supportive rather than mutually contradictory.

The subconscious mind is capricious and therefore paradoxical, it does not listen to the wisdom of the universe.

People in exile are rich -- rich with the accumulated sum of their contradictory identities.

Pat was a complicated and occasionally contradictory man, which is to say he was human, he was flawed, and he was still in the act of self-discovery, of becoming.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

On the surface, the Celibacy Club was one of the more contradictory groups at school. It was the kind of club where kids (mostly girls) would walk past the classroom a couple of times before they went inside for the meeting, as if they were embarrassed to join a club whose members proudly declared their intention to wait until marriage.

strive to accept the existential fact that the human feeling nature is often contradictory and frequently vacillates between opposite polarities of feeling experiences.

Deep down, he's shallow.