Contradictions Quotes

I`m full of contradictions.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

That is one of the problems with oral biography, in that many different points of view are offered: contradictions, refutations, and so on.

the consequences and contradictions of French colonization in Algeria.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

John Kerry`s shifting positions, his contradictions, his pessimism and his hopeless rhetoric send the wrong message to our troops, to our allies, to our enemies and to the world.

Life is never free of contradictions.

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we`ll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we`re all one but continue to try to win.

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we`re trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn`t.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we`d be better off just not thinking about it.

There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not