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That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.


David Hume


#contradiction #implies #intelligible #less #more

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.


Jose Ortega y Gasset


#contradictions #human #human life #life #system

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.


Jonathan Mayhew


#add #apostle #argument #contradiction #contrary

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.


Haruki Murakami


#am #awake #because #change #continue

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.


Thomas Paine


#call #contradictions #new #new testament #religion

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.


Gary Ross


#change #complexity #contradiction #each #else

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


#contradiction #face #i #i believe #i believe that

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


Friedrich Nietzsche


#human-nature #nature






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