#contradiction

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved. ↗

— Herbert Read

#art #between #contradiction #democratic #does

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#cross #death #hope #insofar #living

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again. ↗

— Steve Ross

#back #binds #church #city #contradictions

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#embraced #i #kind #like #philosophy

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#contradictions #harmony #keep #learning #live

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction. ↗

— Richard Savage

#fiction #much #part #polly #sex

Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their lives holding similar contradictory thoughts about their parents. They were raised to learn about love and death, and they lived out their lives passing from the sunny spots to the shady spots of this world. ↗

— Otsuichi

#contradictions #contradictory #death #epiphany #gratitude

Now there are some, and I don't just mean Communists like you, but thinking men of all political parties, who think that not many of these gods actually exist. Some believe that none of them exist. There's just us and an ocean of darkness around us. I'm no philosopher or poet, how would I know the truth? It's true that all these gods seem to do awfully little work - much like our politicians - and yet keep winning reelection to their golden thrones in heaven, year after year. That's not to say I don't respect them, Mr. Premier! Don't you ever let that blasphemous idea into your yellow skull. My country is the kind where it pays to play it both ways: the Indian entrepreneur has to be straight and crooked, mocking and believing, sly and sincere, at the same time. ↗

— Aravind Adiga

#contradictions #entrepreneur #god #gods #men