“ The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. ”
- Georges Bataille- Copy
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“ That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. ”
- Freda Adler- Copy
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“ We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ. ”
- Fidel Castro- Copy
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“ A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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“ In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. ”
- Jack Nicholson- Copy
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“ Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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“ Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. ”
- Tom Robbins- Copy
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“ I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. ”
- Harold Ross- Copy
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“ Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ Fat is a way of saying "no" to powerlessness and self-denial. ”
- Susie Orbach- Copy
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“ There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce. ”
- Henry George- Copy
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“ As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kids. ”
- Delia Ephron- Copy
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“ Thought as such... is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it. ”
- Theodor W. Adorno- Copy
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“ Many people think of knowledge as money. They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it. ”
- John Morely- Copy
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“ No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit;And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation. ”
- Martin Farquhar Tupper- Copy
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“ We are witnessing a paradox - many new faces have come to power, but the face of power has not changed. ”
- Viktor Yushchenko- Copy
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