Quotes with contradiction

Quotes 21 till 26 of 26.

• We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

  Martin Buber
  Austrian-born Israeli Jewish philosopher (1878 - 1965)
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• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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• What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

  Roland Barthes
  French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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• When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

  Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
  French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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• Woman's at best a contradiction still.

  Alexander Pope
  English poet (1688 - 1744)
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• When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

  Simone Weil
  French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• proportionately
• constructed
• distinguish
• nothingness
• impossible
• thoughts

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