He hoped and prayed that there wasn?t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn?t an afterlife.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect.
When two texts or two assertions perhaps two ideas are in contradiction be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets or two successive stages of the same reality a reality convincingly human just because it is complex.
If a person never contradicts himself it must be that he says nothing.
He hoped and prayed that there wasn?t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn?t an afterlife.
Avoid contradicting in general especially people you love.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect.
When we risk no contradiction It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
Speech is civilization itself. The word even the most contradictions word preserves contact it is silence which isolates.
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
When two texts or two assertions perhaps two ideas are in contradiction be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets or two successive stages of the same reality a reality convincingly human just because it is complex.