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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about truth

Arthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realised there was a contradiction there and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

Quote by Douglas Adams

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.

Quote by Douglas Adams

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.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about invention, capitalism, civilization, being, people

Military Intelligence is a contradiction.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, intelligence

Military Intelligence is not a contradiction in terms, Light Infantry is!

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, intelligence, light

Client Intelligence is a contradiction.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about photography, intelligence

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

Quote by Thomas Paine about religion

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion, worry

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction, we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about human imperfections, lie

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need...

Quote by Ron Paul about privacy, purpose, society, need

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion, then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between...

Quote by Shimon Peres about war, teaching, peace, real estate, man

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Quote by Georges Bataille about truth, face

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.

Quote by Jules Michelet about woman, miracle

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Quote by André Breton about life, past, future, death, mind, real estate

In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills...

Quote by Hector Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac about philosophy, magic, example, things, time

A beautiful eye makes the silence eloquent, a benevolent eye transforms the contradiction into a gracious consent, an angry eye deforms the beauty. These small organs give life to every part of our being.

Quote by Joseph Addison about eyes, silence, beauty, being, life