The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.
Kedar JoshiTags: paradox world universe contradiction
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.
George OrwellTags: politics truth paradox reality lies belief democracy opinion alternative-facts memory logic truthfulness corruption government 1984 contradiction doublethink hypnosis conciousness 2017 trump unconsciousness
Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to share guilt for the acts of strangers, that strangers made the laws of the land, that the laws of the land valued things over life, that life ended if a stranger decided it, to be where she could be found, to feel one thing and do another. How could she hang so many contradictions in one skull
Steve AylettTags: life love contradiction
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
Naguib MahfouzTags: heart skepticism contradiction sentimentality
What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: contradiction contradicting
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.
Kahlil GibranTags: contradiction
He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.
Stephen KingTags: man contradiction running king stephen
In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.
George SaundersTags: wisdom art writing ideas contradiction
The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.
Benjamin FranklinTags: paradox practice satire theory rules absurdity contradiction doctrines
One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: human-nature contradiction
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