#contradict

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#another #between #contradictions #dilemma #discovered

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. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#capitalism #civilization #contradiction #dawn #improving

Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#appreciate #being #best #contradictions #i

Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#extreme #gentlemen #i #ladies #living

Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated. ↗

— John Hench

#been #before #big #big cities #chaos

In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say. ↗

— John Hench

#action #action movies #actor #bad #because

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. ↗

— Brad Holland

#artists #because #come #compromise #contradictions

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. ↗

— David Hume

#contradiction #implies #intelligible #less #more

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact. ↗

— Roland Allen

#christ #church #communion #contradiction #excludes

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

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