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That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
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It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.
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Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.
On War (1832) -
One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
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The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
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The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
Address to Unitarian Ministers -
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
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There is no fundamental contradiction between socialism and a market economy.
Interview, Time Magazine 4 November 1985 -
There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
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