Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
The fact is that there is a contradiction going on but our brains don't like contradiction. So when Moe hits Curly on the head with a sledgehammer and Curly says, "ow" and Moe says, "Serves you right Numbskull", you can say that's because they're separate beings, and that's true.
In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . . of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.
Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.
The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they get something that works at all they plunge ahead with it and ignore its weak spots. . . scientists are just as bad as the rest of the public in following fads and being influenced by mass enthusiasm.
Every morning I shall concern myself anew about the boundary Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No And pressing forward honor reality. We cannot avoid Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.
Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.
It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.
The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce. It's a contradiction.
There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.
Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.
Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.
Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.
As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.
Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.
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.
We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it.
People are saying, "Oh my God, Saudi Arabia has changed. " It's a contradiction. Do you want us to lead, or do you want us to play a supporting role?