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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.
A healing journey into the inner conflicts and contradictions that separate spirit from self.
How can you expect me to be perfect...when I am full of contradictions. — © Abraham ibn Ezra
How can you expect me to be perfect...when I am full of contradictions.
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.
We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites
The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.
I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.
What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings.
The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions.
...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any. — © Thomas Paine
...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.
We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.
What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.
You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.
In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.
Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.
It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.
Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.
A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.
One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.
I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
Bollywood is a cinema of vibrant contradictions, which works when it seems it shouldn't.
I connect with all of the characters in my films. That's what makes you want to make a film, that you can enter the mindset, the situation, the conflict, the contradictions.
What I love about the Don Draper character is that he's so real and filled with all these contradictions.
I chose to do art in the way I always do it, which is with all the crazy contradictions of life in there.
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy
I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions. — © Ai Yazawa
If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.
Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him.
Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that's something I adhere to in my life and work.
Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.
To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions
I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.
It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing. — © Marge Piercy
I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.
For me, what is important is to bring the inner life of these characters - their strengths, contradictions, anguish and triumph - alive.
Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.
The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible.
To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.
Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.
God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.
We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.
For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.
There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.
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.
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