“Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each other, that no art or power can bring them together. This great law it is the business of every rational being to understand, that life may not pass away in an attempt to make contradictions consistent, to combine opposite qualities, and to unite things which the nature of their being must always keep asunder.” HumansMayArtDifferentTogetherLawQualityLimitsOppositesDistanceBoundariesRationalFixedEnjoymentConsistentContradictionProvidenceGratificationPassing Away Book:Life and Writings Source: Life and Writings
“I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.” ThinkingWritingKindCharacterArtistInterestingCreatingOppositesCleanActivismContradictionActivistOddsPalateCreating Characters Author:Eve Ensler
“But Russians, in their very nature, it seems, pass quickly from the highest enthusiam to complete dejection and distrust. They yield to their moods quite sincerely and go the whole way, entirely forgetting all moods preceding and opposite. They do not see any contradiction in such behaviour; or, if they do, they readily find excuses for it.” IfsWayWholeSeemsForgetHighestOppositesExcuseMoodRussiaContradictionYieldBehaviourDistrustSincerely Author:Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia
“Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.” ColorOppositesContradictionTenseRoaringInconsistency Author:Tristan Tzara
“You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.” WorldPerfectKnowingIgnoranceOppositesLongingWorthyDuesContradictionLovable Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.” WorldDoeIndividualHalfConflictConsciousOppositesContradictionTorn Author:Carl Jung
“I have never, so far, in all the studies I have done, met a contradiction between what the human, experimental and natural sciences are telling us and the Islamic rules. In fact, the opposite is true: anything that is coming from the modern sciences is helping me better understand the text. It's not a contradiction. It's a relation.” HumansDoneFactsHelpingNaturalStudyModernMetsOppositesRelationIslamicContradictionModern ScienceNatural Science Author:Tariq Ramadan
“When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.” LongSaidHelpingOppositesVery GoodDearContradictionIntroductionOwlLong Words Book:The World of Pooh : the Complete Winnie-The-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner Source: The World of Pooh : the Complete Winnie-The-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner
“Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.” WayAttitudeQualityMiddleAchieveSourceBalanceOppositesBuddhistContradictionDistinctiveSynthesisMiddle Way Author:Taisen Deshimaru
“Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object and the subject, the day and the night. It goes on dividing things which are not divided. Neither is the day divided from the night, nor is birth divided from death. They are one energy. But mind goes on dividing everything into polarities, opposites. Nothing is opposite in existence; every contradiction is only apparent. Deep down all contradictions are meeting together.” MindTogetherNightEnergyExistenceSubjectsObjectsGoes OnBirthOppositesMeetingsContradictionDividedDividesObserversDeep DownConquerorDividingPolarityPolar Opposites Author:Rajneesh