We cannot escape a contradiction in ourselves; we must try to resolve it.
If thecontradiction comes from others, it does not affect us: it is their affair.
Contradiction and flattery make, both of them, bad conversation.
This second version stands in glaring contradiction to the first, both as regards the date and the place where the Cartoon was destroyed.
I do not fear reproach orcontradiction when I repeat that his statues are, as it were, inimitable.
I could not tell the General that there was not room enough in the steeple for another gun, because he probably would have looked upon such a statement as a contradiction from a second lieutenant.
Again, the system of physical punishment invariably leads to defiance; it stirs up a spirit of contradiction and sullenness which gradually encrusts the young mind with the deplorable proof-armor of ultimate indifference.
Its teaching concerning the origin of the human soul is in direct and irreconcilable contradiction with an article of Catholic faith.
But married, as he was, at the early age of eighteen, to a woman eight years his senior, he was a most glorious contradiction of his own assertion.
Beginning with the theory that the one church of God can be divided, which is a contradiction in terms, they claim to be a branch of something that confessedly can have no branches.
The society is a masterly organization; each member obeys without contradiction the commands of an experienced general; they form the strongest bulwark of Rome; for that very reason, they must be suppressed.
It is incompetent to account for the facts, nay, in glaring contradiction to them.
The only contradiction in Crandall's statement was that he, at first, said that pamphlets were brought to him as he was leaving New York in the boat, and afterwards said they had been in his possession for some time.
There was nocontradiction that he noticed in Crandall's statements.
Trinity in unity, he said, was as much a contradiction as a square circle.
It may be now affirmed without fear of contradiction that we find it as easy to pay the interest of eight hundred millions as our ancestors found it, a century ago, to pay the interest of eighty millions.
The very words would, to Sir Peter Wentworth or Sir Edward Coke, have sounded like a contradiction in terms.
And this contradiction for men of the present day has become so full of horror that without its solution life is no longer possible.
The more delicate a man's conscience is, the more painful thiscontradiction is to him.
Such is the attitude of certain learned men to the contradiction under which our society is being crushed, and such are their methods of solving it.
It would seem evident that the contradiction between life and conscience had reached the limit beyond which it cannot go, and after reaching this limit some solution of it must be found.
The sufferings of the working classes, springing from the contradiction between what is and what ought to be, are increased tenfold by the envy and hatred engendered by their consciousness of it.
Every man of the present day, if we go deep enough into the contradiction between his conscience and his life, is in a state of despair.
There is here an apparent contradiction between the version of Ducange and that of MM.
They are metaphysically certain, when error is absolutely impossible, the opposite of what is held by the mind being a contradiction in terms which omnipotence itself could not make true.
Hence, envy looks on the neighbor's prosperity as a calamity to self, as a sort of punishment and the contradiction of one's own desires.
Contraception is a useful control of nature similar to that employed by physicians, surgeons and other scientists; it is not a contradiction of nature, since it preserves the end of the sexual faculty in expressing physical love.
Envy is about the good of a neighbor, for only an insane person would feel chagrin at the superiority of God, and self-envy is a contradiction in terms.
The practical world was less harmonious, since the views of different parts of it were colored by differing interests; but the fact that science did not fall into self-contradiction was encouraging.
Intelligent study will make it clear to every one that any assertion that machinery is the enemy of labor is not merely erroneous, it is a contradiction of the most striking and important fact connected with general progress.
You know those papers too well to make any contradictionof such stuff necessary from me.
The apparent contradiction is due to the confusion of the terms cycle and dispensation.
To be a Bahá’í and at the same time accept membership in another religious body is simply an act of contradiction that no sincere and logically-minded person can possibly accept.
If really governing means sacrificing one's self for the good of the governed, then indeed the second relationship is in direct contradiction to the first.
A contradiction between any words or passages in an author.
All this is in contradiction to the reports of earlier and better authorities.
Such an interpretation is, however, not only contrary to results obtained by the general science of mythology, but it is specifically in contradiction to the uniform statements of the old writers.
The explanation of this apparent contradiction is easy.
Captain Usher excused himself, saying, such an act of hostility towards a neutral would denationalize her, in direct contradiction of Napoleon's doctrine concerning the rights of nations.
But Compte was not a man to be so silenced; he published a contradiction of the official statement, and declared that his journal had not been restored.
It had been adopted in contradiction to his (Lord Holland's) sentiments, but it had been confirmed by Parliament, and he did not hope to obtain a reversal of their judgment.
But Buonaparte refused to see him in his distress, or to permit him to come to Paris, satisfied that the sight of his misery would be a bitter contradiction to the fables which the French journals had, for some time, published of his success.
Both would have been in direct contradiction of the treaty of Fontainbleau, to which Britain had acceded, though she was not of the contracting parties.
Now if she spoke, if she demurred, if she even looked a contradiction of his words, they were both lost--both.
The Citizen does me altogether too much honour," she observed, her voice in directcontradiction to her words.
If we wish to bring vividly to our minds thecontradiction to other habits of thought which this involves, we need only to represent to ourselves the following instance.
The apparent contradiction may affect theories as to the characteristics of inspired books, but it has nothing to do with the credibility of the narratives, or with their value for us.
The uncalculating, impulsive nature of the man makes him a favourite with all readers, and we sympathise with him, as a true brother, when we hear him blurting out his big words, followed so soon by such a contradiction in deeds.
I venture to believe that to extol Him and to deny the validity of His claims is in flagrant contradiction to the facts of His life, and is an unreasonable and untenable position.
If preventing the appearance of contradiction is meant, it does not seem necessary.
