Quote Genre: Contradict

William James – ‘There is only one thing a ph…

‘There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do and that is to contradict other philosophers.’

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Miguel de Unamuno – ‘If a person never contradict…

‘If a person never contradicts himself it must be that he says nothing.’

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John Gay – ‘When we risk no contradictio…

‘When we risk no contradiction It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.’

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Sigmund Freud – ‘When a man has once brought …

‘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.’

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Sir Winston Churchill – ‘The reserve of modern assert…

‘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.’

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton – ‘Courage is almost a contradi…

‘Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.’

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