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In pure innocent love, there is no longer present contradictions.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Little bundle of contradictions
— Anne Frank
Not because he had the slightest interest in God but because he was curious about its internal contradictions.
— Michael Lewis
This was jazz music. It was full of the complexity and contradictions that I would soon learn made humans human.
— Matt Haig
His anguished mind writhed with contradictions. He was a man of parts and halfs, in a time of wholes and absolutes.
— Alexander Rose
The only way to overcome these contradictions is for the countries of the Eurozone (or at any rate those who are willing) to pool their public debts.
— Thomas Piketty
I'm a full-of-contradictions kind of guy.
— Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo
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
It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.
— Rajneesh
My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
— Malcolm Gladwell
There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit.
— Elliott Abrams
Self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.
— Vivian Gornick
But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions.
— Simone De Beauvoir
It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being
— Sergei Eisenstein
When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.
— Carl Jung
One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
— Thomas E. Mann
Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.
— Tim Blake Nelson
Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.
— Shirley Maclaine
Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.
— Donald Kingsbury
A fish will not truly learn to enjoy water, without gasping for air.
— Markus W. Lunner
I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy
— Czeslaw Milosz
Paradox reconciles all contradictions.
— Patrick Leigh Fermor
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE
— Tristan Tzara
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.
— David Harvey
She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.
— Derek Landy
Do not expect consistency. Everything is a contradiction of everything else. Nothing exists but contradictions.
— Ayn Rand
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.
— Anne Michaels
Nothing is more painful than the shock of sharp contradictions that lacerate our intelligence and our feelings.
— Joseph Conrad
I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
— Garry Trudeau
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
— Harrison Birtwistle
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions ... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.
— Rabindranath Tagore
The Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
— Thomas Paine
Old contradictions never die; they just get new outfits.
— Susan J. Douglas
We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites
— Eric Jerome Dickey
I am a mass of contradictions.
— Maureen Johnson
In all men lie the greatest of contradictions.
— Jason Michel
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
These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.
— Swami Vivekananda
Rose Calloway Cobalt has always been a series of contradictions.
— Becca Ritchie
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Every one of us is a walking set of contradictions. The great among us are no different, except that their contradictions tend to run to extremes.
— Jeffrey S. Young
The character of American civilization is a bundle of contradictions,
— James Davison Hunter
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
I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.
— Rod Stewart
Life is never free of contradictions.
— Manmohan Singh
I'm full of contradictions.
— Juliana Hatfield
The women I cast have to embody all sorts of contradictions ... I have to find the right woman to speak to other women.
— Allison Anders
Ella was a perfect study in contradictions, and I'd somehow contracted her like a beautiful disease.
— Laura Marie Altom
Everyone is a mass of contradictions. There are no "types" of people,
— Mary-Louise Parker
In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.
— Matt Dillon
We're human. All we are are beautiful contradictions.
— Laura Lee Gulledge
Contradictions are the impossible chasms that create forever separations. God is the forever bridge that creates impossible reunions.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Life is full of contradictions. We crave security and independence in equal measures.
— Twinkle Khanna
Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.
— Genrich Altshuller
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
— Henry Adams
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Isn't everyone's life a mass of contradictions?
— Noah Feldman
I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.
— Czeslaw Milosz
A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.
— David Sheff
Young humans are real pieces of abstracted contradictions," Uri said.
— Cathrina Constantine
God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.
— Jean-Pierre De Caussade
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
Galaxie 500 broke up because it was time. We broke up as a result of internal contradictions.
— Dean Wareham
Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.
— Terry Eagleton
Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions
— Jules Michelet
The human psyche was much more flexible than I'd imagined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and seeming impossibilities.
— Ransom Riggs
A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper.
— Boris Fishman
Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.
— G.K. Chesterton
Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.
— Ira Sachs
Allow me to contradict my clarifications and in no time we'll get to the bottom of nothing.
— Brian Spellman
Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.
— Ernest Becker
The will is a product of integrity, not a child of contradictions.
— Nilakanta Sri Ram
A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures
— Carl Braaten
What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings.
— Stacey D'Erasmo
A mess of beautiful contradictions make her whole, she wears fire for skin but a storm lives in her soul.
— Nikita Gill
How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.
— Remy De Gourmont
We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It's important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.
— Richey Edwards
He's a mass of contradictions. Unfortunately, that only seems to enhance his appeal. I'm one sick bitch, that's for sure.
— Siobhan Davis
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.
— Chaim Potok
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.
— Roberto Assagioli
There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.
— David Harvey
Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Observe the ugly mess which most men make of their sex lives - and observe the mess of contradictions which they hold as their moral philosophy.
— Ayn Rand