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Tag Name "Contradictions" (207)

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Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles actually believed it.
Frederick The Great
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Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.
Karl Barth
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I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
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Paradox likes contradictions with exits.
Mason Cooley
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Isn’t everyone’s life a mass of contradictions?
Noah Feldman
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Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
Jules Michelet
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God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is nothing but a mass of contradictions.
Swami Vivekananda
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I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.
Jenny Saville
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If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.
Mao Zedong
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Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about.
Francoise Sagan
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One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.
Jean-Pierre de Caussade
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How can you expect me to be perfect...when I am full of contradictions.
Abraham ibn Ezra
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
John Berger
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Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism.
Greg Graffin
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Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
Audre Lorde
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The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.
Monique Wittig
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To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.
John Burdett
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To discover our own intimate contradictions is a success in itself because our interior judgment is spontaneously free. The man guided by the voice of the Consciousness walks victorious through the Correct Path.
Samael Aun Weor
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In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is that it protects the perineum from injury, a protection accomplished by slicing through perineal skin, connective, tissue, and muscle.
Henci Goer
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We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
George Santayana
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