#contra

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#extreme #moderate #ones #positions #succeeded

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#conveyed #often #opinion #really #tone

If I was roped into a seven-year TV contract I'd probably hang myself. ↗

— Justin Theroux

#hang #i #into #myself #probably

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#contrary #does #fictions #hand #i

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

— Thomas Paine

#call #contradictions #new #new testament #religion

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people. ↗

— Michael Palin

#believe #between #contrary #creating #leaders

There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services. ↗

— Sean Parker

#contracts #get #happening #lot #paid

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#above #contrary #indeed #see #senses

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

— Blaise Pascal

#conceal #contradiction #disguise #duplicity #falsehood

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

— Blaise Pascal

#falsity #lack #nor #sign #truth