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Letter "C" » contradictions
«Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the label on the can of worms.»
Author: Julian Critchley
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
can of worms, contradictions, free of, label, Marxism, Mrs, on the other hand, riddled, thatcher, Thatcherism, The Can, worms
«I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions»
«Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.»
«In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
contradictions, faculty, Faculty of, ignoring, in practice, in principle, set aside, The Faculty, trifles
«I love life and I love that about people... I adore the human experience, I really adore the ... I love the contradictions of people... I don't mind being sexy and girlish and womanly, and all those things at the same time... smart and very»
«I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind--and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.»
«Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
absurdities, blasphemies, blasphemy, contradictions, revealed, revealed religion, species, testament, testaments, The New
«I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an over acute capacity for sadness as well as elation. I know what the cat wh»
Author: Frank Sinatra
(Actor, Singer)
| About:
Sadness,
Singers and singing
| Keywords:
acute, articulate, contradictions, depressive, elation, Karat, lyric, lyrics, manic, singers
«There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Existence
| Keywords:
contradictions, finite, Meeting Point, movement, mystery, stillness, united
«The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Ethics,
Morality,
Society,
Utopia
| Keywords:
contradictions, Utopians
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