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“To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions”

Ideas Accepting Contradiction Inheritance

Author:George Orwell

“I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.”

Ifs Made Ends Accepting Impossible Overcoming Contradiction Impossibility

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.”

Men World Want Facts Accepting Majority Contradiction Rejects Abandon Escaping

Author:Albert Camus

“People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence. And such a teaching, despite its inner contradiction, was so firmly established that the very people who recognize love as a virtue accept as lawful at the same time an order of life based on violence and allowing men not merely to torture but even to kill one another.”

People Men Trying Order Evil Accepting Virtue Violence Teaching Despite Torture Contradiction Allowing Restraining

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.”

Ideas Found Accepting Groups Civilization Contradiction Diverse Woven Strands

Book:Coming of Age in Samoa

Source: Coming of Age in Samoa

“Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it.”

Romance Belief Born Imagination Accepting Christianity Europe Filled Spread Contradiction Superstitions Absurdity Metaphysical Ardent Imbeciles

Author:Frederick The Great

“I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction.”

Thinking Way Humans Accepting Conditions Contradiction Human Condition

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming