Salvador Dali
Artist, Surrealist
"Everything that is contradictory creates life"
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Contradictory
39 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Emile M. Cioran
Philosopher, Essayist
"If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out."
George Eliot
Novelist, Poet, Journalist
"The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality."
Plato
Philosopher
"If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection"
Salvador Dali
Artist, Surrealist
"[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man."
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"Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides . . . so now I have to guard myself against the extremists of both sides."
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"Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate."
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"Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical."
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"The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories."
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