Quotes About Contradictions

A woman of contradictions . Forthright and secretive in the same breath.

imperialism carries the contradictions of capitalism to their last bounds, to the extreme limit, beyond which revolution begins. Of these contradictions, there are three which must be regarded as the most important.

Conspiracism •The trend that equates the bourgeoisie to an Illuminati-like organization, to see the workings of class society and its contradictions as the conspiratorial actions of the ruling classes rather than as historically and materially-defined processes.

Reading and rereading this collection, I encounter the generosity, frailties and strengths, contradictions and contributions of "disappeared" rebels and heretics, of prophets and soldiers and healers. I am reminded of the noncanonical Gnostic Gospels suppressed by state religion; the heart of this work seems to pulse with the Gospel of Thomas (113): The disciples said to Him, "When will the Kingdom come?" [Jesus said,] "It will not come by waiting for it.

los científicos se sienten tentados muchas veces a aferrarse, como cualquier mortal, a propuestas que en puro rigor deductivo deberían rechazar por haberse topado con contraejemplos. Incluso

Galaxie 500 broke up because it was time. We broke up as a result of internal contradictions.

I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him.

The trick has been to live in the contradictions while maintaining principles, beliefs, and purpose.

Land of extremes. Land of contrasts. Land of surprises. Land of contradictions.... That is Arizona.

Yo era tan pronto muy nervioso, o muy aplastado; muy excitado, o inerte, somnoliento. Yo también cargaba mis baterías y las descargaba de golpe; pero muy a menudo a propósito de una insignificancia y con gran extrañeza de todos. Y de pronto aparecía distendido, distraído, abandonado a la luna cuando el tema era de verdadero interés. Tan pronto angustiosamente tímido como sorpresivamente violento, o audazmente atrevido. Pero constantemente torpe.

It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies.

Disclaimer: While Pastafarianism is the only religion based on empirical evidence, it should also be noted that this is a faith-based book. Attentive readers will note numerous holes and contradictions throughout the text; they will even find blatant lies and exaggerations. These have been placed there to test the reader's faith.

Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

Cause in Alphaville, you're not allowed to have deep feelings. So there's nothing like love. No contradictions, no irony. They do everything according to numerical formulas." Kaoru wrinkles her brow. "'Irony'?" "Irony means taking an objective or inverted view of oneself or of someone belonging to oneself and discovering oddness in that.

We all struggle with contradictions. Contradictions are marvelous. If you don't believe that everything contains contradictions, then there is very little you can understand. We know ourselves by embracing what we are not. We become good by taking evil head-on.

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.

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.

When I first saw [James Baldwin] on television in the early sixties, I felt immediately a kinship with this man whose anger and disappointment with America's contradictions transformed his face into a warrior's face, whose tongue transformed our massacres into triumphs. And he left behind a hundred TV deaths: scholars, writers, teachers, and journalists shipwrecked by his revivals and sermons. And the Black audiences watched and shouted amen and felt clean and conscious and chosen.

The truths that he finds may in the coming months or even the coming years be truths no more. He must be forever searching. Thus is born a multitude of contradictions. Now he appears an Epicurean, now a Stoic, now a sceptic.

Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.

not because he had the slightest interest in God but because he was curious about its internal contradictions.

young man who set out to study the Talmud, not because he had the slightest interest in God but because he was curious about its internal contradictions.

Expected utility theory wasn't exactly wrong. It simply did not understand itself, to the point where it could not defend itself against seeming contradictions. The theory's failure to explain people's decisions, Danny and Amos wrote, "merely demonstrates what should perhaps be obvious, that non-monetary consequences of decisions cannot be neglected, as they all too often are, in applications of utility theory.