There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.
Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.
Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.
As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.
That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.
The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.
Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.
I love that contradiction between the ugly and the nice. It's shot in a very gourmet way in the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer. But then Grenouille doesn't differentiate between what's commonly considered to be good smells and bad. He just takes it all, like a true collector does.
We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.
"You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace. " I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the job description, Mr. Maxfield. "
Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.
Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction.
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.
No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.
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.
I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction.
The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions. . . Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.
You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.