A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God.

It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.

If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction.

Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.

We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction.

I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

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