contradiction Quotes

“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy;...”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities—you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.”

― Voltaire, Candide

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“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the want of contradiction a sign of truth.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

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“Contrariwise . . . if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

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“What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth; depositary of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error; the pride and refuse of the...”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“there is not a single one of those books which does not contradict some other book; so that by the time one has read them all one does not know what to think about anything.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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