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contradiction
«Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity /namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.»
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
(Founder)
| Keywords:
absurdity, contradiction, erroneous, erroneous belief, evident, existent, faculties, namely, Pleasure and Pain, self evident, standard, substance, supposition, The Standard, unreal, untrue
«Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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check, checking, check in, Check it out, check up on, contradiction, contradictions, exist, facing, in check, one of them, premise, premised, premises
«Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.»
«Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
contradiction, fiction, fictions, made-up
«And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.»
Author: Bible
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contradiction
«Do not carry a spirit of contradiction, for it is to be freighted with stupidity and with peevishness, and your intelligence should plot against it; though it may well be the mark of mental genius to see objection, a wrangler about everything cannot»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
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contradiction, freighted, objection, peevishness, plot, The Mark of, wrangler
«Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
contradiction, falsities, falsity, lack, sign
«A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
contradiction, contradiction in terms, gentleman, nose, pug, pug nose, terms