Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.
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.
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.
In the contradiction lies the hope.
It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being
There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc. , that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.
It is a contradiction to be a true Christian and not humble.
We need to be ambivalent - in the essay, and in life too. Ambivalence - having mixed feelings, entertaining contradiction, living with fluctuation - is a widened embrace. It's about the coexistence of things, and in that light, we have no choice in the matter.
It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.
Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.
Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.
I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
[We need not think] that there is any Contradiction, when Philosophy teaches that to be done by Nature; which Religion, and the Sacred Scriptures, teach us to be done by God: no more, than to say, That the balance of a Watch is moved by the next Wheel, is to deny that Wheel, and the rest, to be moved by the Spring; and that both the Spring, and all the other Parts, are caused to move together by the Maker of them. So God may be truly the Cause of This Effect, although a Thousand other Causes should be supposed to intervene: For all Nature is as one Great Engine, made by, and held in His Hand.
Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.