4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in favor of novelty
Thomas JeffersonTags: science inspiration inquiry evidence astronomy-nerd book-of-joshua contradiction critical-examination divine-inspiration examine joshua livy new-testament probability supernatural tacitus testimony
I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.
Man RayTags: liberty expression contradiction
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
Georges BatailleTags: truth contradiction
Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me — the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love — He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us — nature did it all — not the gods of the religions.
[October 2, 1910, interview in the NY Times Magazine]
Tags: nature atheism superstition gods contradiction loving fable merciful
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink
George OrwellTags: hypocrisy contradiction doublethink
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: inspirational opinions criticism paranoia contradiction correcting correction
I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: humor contradiction acquaintance
What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.
Jeanette WintersonTags: love heart contradiction
The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.
The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.
The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.
Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life.
The only veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage.
Dare to breach the surface and sink.
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...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
Benjamin ZanderTags: talent art creativity possibility contradiction
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