#contradictions

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life. ↗

— Fernand Braudel

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I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

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I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world. ↗

— Michael Haneke

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I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions. ↗

— Maxine Hong Kingston

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I'm full of contradictions. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#full #i

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity. ↗

— Richard Kadrey

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Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#contradictions #cure #drugs #life #problems

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

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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

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