Contradictory Quotes - Page 11

• The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

  Carrie Fisher

  Relationship, Sex, Children

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• Everything that is contradictory creates life

  Salvador Dali

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• The standard of the world, and the standard of the Lord Jesus, are indeed widely different. They are more than different. They are flatly contradictory one to the other.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Different, World

  J.C. Ryle “Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Volume 1-4”, Primedia E-launch LLC

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• Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Manipulation, Degenerates

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection

  Plato

  Reflection, Impression, Ifs

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• 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.

  Nicki Minaj

  Children, Teenager, Choices

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• I know why I make films -cinema is a mode of expression that allows you to express all the nuances of a thing while including its opposites. These are things that can't be quantified mentally; yet they can exist and be juxtaposed. That may seem very contradictory. Cinema allows you to film these contradictions.

  Catherine Breillat

  Expression, Opposites, Cinema

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• Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind of secret set of rules that they would like to see revealed. There is no set of rules, or, rather, there are many, varied and flexible rules.

  Umberto Eco

  Two, Creative, Secret

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• The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.”

  Jean Guitton

  Tolerance, Opinion, Accepting

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• The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.

  Charles Wagner

  Men, Views, Justice

  Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs

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• It seems significant that according to quantum physics the indestructibility of energy on one hand which expresses its timeless existence and the appearance of energy in space and time on the other hand correspond to two contradictory (complementary) aspects of reality. In fact, both are always present, but in individual cases the one or the other may be more pronounced.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Reality, Two, Space

  C. G. Jung, Wolfgang Pauli (2014). “Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932-1958”, p.185, Princeton University Press

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• One of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of science and of Marxist philosophy. Although much has already been written on the subject, yet there is still an enormous amount of confusion and contradictory statement.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Philosophy, Thinking, Confusion

  "Dialectical Materialism and Modern Science". Science and Society, Volume II, No. 1, 1937.

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• Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by fairly unexceptional humans, are in fact the word of god. I think that the indispensable condition of any intellectual liberty is the realisation that there is no such thing.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Evil, Mad

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.59, Basic Books

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• People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

  Alan Lightman

  Long, People, World

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.18, Vintage

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• If you want to do good research, it's important not to know too much. This almost sounds contradictory but really if you know too much and you get an idea, you will sort of talk yourself out of trying it because you figure it won't work. But if you know just the right amount and you get enthusiastic about your project, you go ahead, you do it and if you're lucky things'll work out.

  Ivar Giaever

  Ideas, Work Out, Trying

  "Ivar Giaever's Nobel Prize". Interview with Alfred Leitner, 1982.

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• The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of music....The point is not to hold up Beethoven as exceptionally monstrous. The Ninth Symphony is probably our most compelling articulation in music of the contradictory impulses that have organized patriarchal culture since the Enlightenment. Moreover, within the parameters of his own musical compositions, he may be heard as enacting a critique of narrative obligations that is...devestating.

  Susan McClary

  Symphony, Musical, Enlightenment

  "Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality". Book by Susan McClary, 1991.

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• People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don't know what they're doing. They're in the category of those who write; they are not writers. Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. Writing is selfish and contradictory in its terms. First of all, you're writing for an audience of one, you must please the one person you're writing for. Yourself.

  Harper Lee

  Selfish, Writing, Audience Of One

  "All I Want To Be Is The Jane Austen Of South Alabama". Interview with Roy Newquist, www.thebluegrassspecial.com.

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• If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a theory of human society peculiar to itself and irreconcilable with true Christianity. Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.

  Pope Pius XI

  Christian, Religious, Errors

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• I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the religions to a higher synthesis. Different approaches have to be joined together. I am creating an orchestra.

  Rajneesh

  Simple, Creating, Trying

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• 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.

  Naomi Wolf

  Criticism, Use, Language

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• Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.

  John Dalton

  Wise, Loyalty, Fall

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• My interest at the moment is to use my dreaming self (which I also access in shamanic journeying) to engage with the Earth. In my waking rational life I often forget about the Earth, or I get worried or confused by contradictory information. With my dreaming brain I can have access to powerful images of what is going on in the Earth, from day to day.

  Amy Hardie

  Dream, Powerful, Confused

  "The Edge of Dreaming". Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.

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• Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.

  Richard Overy

  Character, Goering, Complexes

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• A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Believe, Book

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fear, Powerful, Army

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