. . . in one sense a foundation is a security blanket: If you meticulously follow the rules laid down, no paradoxes or contradictions will arise. In reality there is now no guarantee of this sort of security. . .
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.
Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.
Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?"
In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.
I am a mass of contradictions.
Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence.
We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.
Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.
Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.
The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the Moses-like Muhammad with a Torah of his own.
It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.
As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all. We are a fountain of shimmering contradictions, most of us. Beautiful in the concept, if we're lucky, but frequently tedious or regrettable as we flesh ourselves out.
Jesus said that I am the only way. So it is illogical to say all religions are true, but it is not illogical to say all religions are false. All religion could be false but they can't all be true because there are direct logical contradictions.
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
Isn’t everyone’s life a mass of contradictions?
In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.