Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise PascalTags: truth signs false contradiction
I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.
Billy CollinsTags: poetry contradiction
A king who’s innocent
of the things of which he’s guilty?
Tags: humor contradiction king
The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.
Ivan DoigTags: love contradiction
Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.
Robert McKeeTags: difference contradiction commercialism delinquency
Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.
Terence McKennaTags: meaning contradiction lectures-on-alchemy
Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.
Thomas AquinasTags: reason power god contradiction omnipotence
The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied half the horizon, had for the first time in her life awoken in her a sense of the contrarieties that are in our longings.
W.G. SebaldTags: nature human-nature contradiction
I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.
Jeanette WintersonTags: love solitude contradiction longing
So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.
Harper LeeTags: society contradiction reasons dilemma
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