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...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contrad...

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One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Lov...

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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructe...

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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

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Georges BatailleViolent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille

So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.

I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the sma...

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What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame hea...

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I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the te...

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When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I ...

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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in ...

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«Linkeree does what he likes. He likes to be alone and think his own thoughts. No one is hurt by it....

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Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particul...

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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicte...

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I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of ...

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Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.

Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we rea...

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Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

Such was the complexity of things. For what happened to her, especially staying with the Ramsays, wa...

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... I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken he...

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After all, these were blood drinkers, beings who spoke gently, liked poetry, and yet killed mortals ...

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Now there are some, and I don't just mean Communists like you, but thinking men of all political par...

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The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of ...

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I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the ...

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Billy CollinsQuestions About Angels

They're sharing a drink called loneliness, but at least its better than drinking alone.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And...

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But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a ...

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One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you...

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