Quotes About Contradictions

Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.

Isn't everyone's life a mass of contradictions?

These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.

Humans were interesting to Nova, and perhaps the most interesting things about them was their contradictions-so fragile and so tenuous.

We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

For the whole of life consists of nothing but contradictions. The rich are the poor in spirit; the many little men hold the power, and the great only serve the little men. I've never met such proud people as the humble; I've never met an uneducated man who didn't believe himself in a position to criticise learning and to do without it.

All scriptures contain contradictions and the Qur'an is no exception.

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

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.

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.

There are a lot of grey areas in my personality. We all have them.

People don't have their virtues and vices in sets: they have them anyhow: all mixed.

Love is agony, isn't it? I've been involved with someone for some time now, but it's all so complicated. It's never straightforward is it? You meet someone, you fall in love, it's the most wonderful thing ever but... There's always something that's not quite right about love, isn't there?

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

I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to time, and they show no sign of stopping.

My purpose was simply to diminish that mass of contradictions and abuses which eventually turn legal procedure into a wilderness where decent people hardly dare venture, and where bandits abound.

Quelques mois plus tard, je donnai à un des quartiers d'Antinoé, le nom de ma soeur Pauline. [...] Pauline morte retrouvait dans cette ville de la mémoire sa place unique de soeur. Ce lieu triste devenait le site idéal des réunions et des souvenirs, les Champs Élysées d'une vie, l'endroit où les contradictions se résolvent, où tout, à son rang, est également sacré.

Does poetry - or language or philosophy or music or architecture, even that of our temples - really need to dance to the same tune as our political beliefs or our religious convictions? Is the strict harmony of our cultural identities a virtue to be valued above others that may come from the accommodation of contradictions?

Když otevÃ…â"¢ela o?i, zabolelo ho to. Tak velká byla oddanost v jejím pohledu. Chame, zaÅ¡eptala. Jak by mohl Ã…â"¢íci, že ji jeÅ¡tÄ› nikdy nemiloval tolik jako nyní, když byl zamilován do jiné. Kdyby se odvážil, možná by v hloubi protiklad?, které tvoÃ…â"¢ily její podstatu, porozumÄ›la.

The willingness to indulge in ideological thinking—that is, in thinking that by definition is not one's own, which is blind to experience and to the contradictions that arise when broader fields of knowledge are consulted—is a capitulation no one should ever make.

The willingness to indulge in ideological thinking - that is, in thinking that by definition is not one's own, which is blind to experience and to the contradictions that arise when broader fields of knowledge are consulted - is a capitulation no one should ever make. It is a betrayal of our magnificent minds and of all the splendid resources our culture has prepared for their use.