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The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.
And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
Many investors understandably want to do good while also doing well. But the standards for ESG investing are often unclear and sometimes contradictory.
Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.
Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping
Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.
A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.
Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.
Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one
It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.
I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.
Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.
Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one.
'Colonialism' and 'democracy' are two contradictory terms. In order to be 'democratic' a country has to be free. Right now, Indonesian people are slaves: of the West and of their local elites.
On many issues, including on the use of nuclear weapons, it is not clear where [Donald] Trump stands, due to his contradictory statements.
I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow.
Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.
You don't need the 'voice of God' commentary. Instead, by juxtaposing contradictory or confirmatory witnesses and archive material, your point of view becomes obvious.
The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.”
The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.
Even when the views are contradictory, talks are the only way forward and problems should be resolved through dialogue.
Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in.
Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming.
[Identity liberalism] is about recognition and self-definition. It's narcissistic. It's isolating. It looks within. And it also makes two contradictory claims on people.
In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.
You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!
I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.
It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it is perhaps the most contradictory of mediums.
One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.
Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning.
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."
To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.
I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.
The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.
I had a lot of enthusiasms that were very contradictory, I was never very doctrinaire in the type of design I wanted to do.
To be a film-maker, you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions... You must have talents of so many different kinds - talents that are contradictory.
The FBI's mission is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution. That mission is both dual and simultaneous - it is not contradictory.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
Anyone driving great social change, willingly or not, is going to be a fascinating contradictory mix of idealism and ego.
In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference.
It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.
If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance.
I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.
Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.
I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
Marriage is an an inherently contradictory state. It involves the fusion of two people into one thing. And it's also love, and it's a lot of work, and it's got glory in its drudgery.
Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.
I thought I was going to die. I was a teenager. It was the hardest thing I’d ever gone through. It’d be contradictory if I said I wasn’t pro-choice. I wasn’t ready. I didn’t have anything to offer a child.
Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith.
Trickster stories are pleasurable, contradictory, annoying, abrasive. They're powerful, transformational acts of liberation because they are not nailed down to the real, to the representation of something in the world.
I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what we do.
If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.
