Contradiction quotes
190 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students."
"We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them."
"No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?"
"How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms."
"Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply become impossible."
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"Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them."
"A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible."
"If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing."
"The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions."
"Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that."
"How can you expect me to be perfect...when I am full of contradictions."
"Love is a drama of contradictions."
"Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms."
"The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse."
"We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart."
"The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be."
"I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth"
"The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary."
"In the contradiction lies the hope."
"What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive."
"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."
"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
"Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm."
"Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction."
"It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction."
