#contradict

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#bathed #contradictory #experience #extracting #find

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. ↗

— William Blake

#fiction #made #up #will #world

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#being #contradiction #epitome #existence #feel

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#community #competent #contradiction #direct #habits

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#christ #contradiction #extraordinary #figure #i

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#even #false #intelligence #many #more

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#answer #assertions #commission #contradictions #experience

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#close #closer #contradictions #dream #dream world

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#did #fear #i #self-doubt #simply

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#bore #bores #contradict #great #himself