#contradictions

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. ↗

— Brad Holland

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You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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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

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose. ↗

— Rod Stewart

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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

The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#science

All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#contradictions #life-and-death #religions #death

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#contradictions #historians #justifies #makes #nation

Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians. ↗

— Henry Adams

#paradox #education