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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
Bangkok is infamously mired in lurid contradiction, but it's also a city of subtle and distorted moods that journalism and film have hitherto mostly failed to capture.
Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people
Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.
You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this, for men are impatient with such things and do not brook contradiction.
It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise consumption by major reduction ofindividualincometaxrates.
What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive.
Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous.
Hollywood was set up by a bunch of businessmen. They do not see their job as being philanthropists. I don't think it's a contradiction in terms to attempt to be a good businessman and to also be liberal.
To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
Faith and reason overpower each other throughout one's life, which results in contradiction, but the conflict never ceases in any sphere.
Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.
I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.
Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.
There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.
Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.
The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
There is no inherent contradiction between being right-wing and being intelligent.
You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.
A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.
If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.
Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.
Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.
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.
My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there... was in contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world.
I realize that was becoming a contradiction in terms, especially after my friend Alison Krauss was shot and killed in Kent State in 1970 on campus by the National Guard.
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God.
It is a contradiction to support increased development assistance, yet turn a blind eye to actions by multinationals anothers that undermine the tax base of a developing country.
I find no contradiction between being a Highlander, a Scot, a citizen of the U.K. and a citizen of the European Union at one and the same time.
The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.
A pacifist male is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described "pacifists" are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind changes, they hoist the Jolly Roger.
The burden is on the Jewish majority in Israel to prove that the definition of their country as Jewish and democratic is not a contradiction.
We're told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There's an inherent contradiction.
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.
We belong to a tradition where we treat the entire universe as our family. For me, globalisation is the manifestation of nationalisation. There is no contradiction between the two.
The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.
We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.
There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.
There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.
"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.
The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.
There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.
We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.
When you stand and talk about player safety, and then, at the same time, you want to extend the season two more games, there's a contradiction in there.
The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.
An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.
