{"quotes":[{"text":"I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.","author":"Man Ray","tags":["contradiction","expression","liberty"],"id":5124,"author_id":"Man+Ray"},{"text":"One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["beneficial","benefit","bigotry","close-mindedness","contradiction","different","laws","morals","oneness","open-mindedness","rights"],"id":6873,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["contradiction","darwin-s-doubts","darwinism","evolution","human-mind","macro-evolution","macroevolution","mind","self-refuting"],"id":8425,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"},{"text":"Your eyes will contradict your words if your words contradict your thoughts and feelings.","author":"Sam Owen","tags":["body-language","communication","contradiction","feelings","non-verbal-communication","relationships","thoughts","words"],"id":25748,"author_id":"Sam+Owen"},{"text":"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["contradiction","correcting","correction","criticism","inspirational","opinions","paranoia"],"id":28956,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who cares?’.","author":"Tony Schwartz","tags":["alternative-facts","compulsive-liar","contradiction","contradictory","deceit","donald-trump","donald-trump","grandiosity","hyperbole","liar","lies","lying","lying-to-others","pathological-liar","self-aggrandizing","self-deception","truthful-hyperbole"],"id":34486,"author_id":"Tony+Schwartz"},{"text":"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["1984","2017","alternative-facts","belief","conciousness","contradiction","corruption","democracy","doublethink","government","hypnosis","lies","logic","memory","opinion","paradox","politics","reality","trump","truth","truthfulness","unconsciousness"],"id":36899,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"«Linkeree does what he likes. He likes to be alone and think his own thoughts. No one is hurt by it.» Sara said, «Jason said that we are one people. Linkeree is saying he does not want to be part of us, and if he is not part of us then we are all less than we were.» They were both very wise. It would be so much easier for Kapock if they had only agreed with each other.","author":"Orson Scott Card","tags":["community","contradiction","perspective","wisdom"],"id":40110,"author_id":"Orson+Scott+Card"},{"text":"If we presuppose that Jesus and God are one—as many (but not all) Christians do—then we can also infer that Jesus Christ was omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-benevolent, and it is with this that the idea of sacrifice is lost. The martyrdom was premeditated on the part of the Creator, and Jesus was resurrected afterward—showing that the act of ‘death’ was not an inconvenience for the immortal ‘man’ who was said to have known that he would be resurrected.","author":"David G. McAfee","tags":["contradiction","glitch","jesus","knowledge","omnipotent","resurrection","sacrifice"],"id":41795,"author_id":"David+G.+McAfee"},{"text":"What you call 'contradiction' I call 'complement'.","author":"Agnostic Zetetic","tags":["complement","contradiction","honesty","humanity","infinite","outside-the-box","reality","vastness"],"id":43612,"author_id":"Agnostic+Zetetic"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":92,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}