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So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she'd unhappy in the first place is you," said Simon not very kindly. "That seems contradictory, doesn't it?" "Love is a contradiction," said Jace, and turned back to the window. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-fallen-angels #contradiction #jace #love #simon

The four stages of acceptance: 1. This is worthless nonsense. 2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view. 3. This is true, but quite unimportant. 4. I always said so." (Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464) ↗

— J.B.S. Haldane

#dispute #haldane #opportunism #science #self-contradiction

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

— Georges Bataille

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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

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And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#cannot #contradictory #experience #eye #hence

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#authority #contradiction #exercise #over #same

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#contradictions #fascinating #human #human behavior #maddening

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#another #between #contradictions #dilemma #discovered

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. ↗

— Alan Turing

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