Definition of Contradictions

Contradictions

Filled with contradictions; inconsistent.

Inclined to contradict or cavil

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Cavil, Contradict, Contradictions, Filled, Inclined, Inconsistent, Or, To, With

Contradictions Quotations

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

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
Thomas Paine

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
Thomas Merton

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
E. O. Wilson

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
Michel de Montaigne

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.
Neale Donald Walsch

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

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis de Sales

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?
Nikita Khrushchev

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.
Andre Breton

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.
Bryant H. McGill

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.
Jessica Hagedorn

I'm full of contradictions.
Juliana Hatfield

Life is never free of contradictions.
Manmohan Singh

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.
John Bates Clark

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

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
Antonio Tabucchi

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are.
Giorgio Napolitano

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.
Brad Holland

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

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
Harrison Birtwistle

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.
Evan Parker

Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.
Gustav Heinemann

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
Fernand Braudel

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
Eric Hobsbawm

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
L. Sprague de Camp

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
Garry Trudeau

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.
Steve Ross

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