Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.
Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.
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?
Consumer culture is contradiction in terms
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.
I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.
In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.
To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions
I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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.
I hold myself accountable for my contradictions.
We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.
The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.
To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.