“After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.” IfsFirstsSaidWould BeBeautifulConsciousUglyContradictionI Am Ugly Book:On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo Source: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
“When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.” WorldDoeIndividualHalfConflictConsciousOppositesContradictionTorn Author:Carl Jung
“We should remember what a rapper like Tupac Shakur was doing, to a certain degree, who came from an experience of politicization very close to being a "Panther Baby". He knew, he came from that experience of the Black Panthers, and accounting for all his contradictions and process of growth, he achieved politically through gangsta rap things that no conscious rapper has achieved, such as establishing political, ethical, and moral codes between Crips and Bloods in the United States.” ShouldStatesRememberPoliticalCertainProcessBlackGrowthUnitedMoralUnited StatesBloodBabyDegreesConsciousRapCodeContradictionEthicalRapperAccountingPanthersMoral CodeGangstaBlack PantherGangsta RapCrips Author:Bocafloja
“As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As an artist, I frankly write about what I like in architecture: complexity and contradiction. From what we find we like-what we are easily attracted to-we can learn much of what we really are.” WritingTryingPastArtistHabitConsciousArchitectureComplexityContradictionArchitectPrecedent Author:Robert Venturi
“I'm not interested in safety. A great risk in writing is imagining you have something to protect. Playing it safe to placate someone or something. People talk about compromise, but often people don't even know when they're compromising, because they're not conscious of contradictions.” PeopleWritingRiskProtectConsciousSafetyCompromiseContradictionNot Interested Author:Lynne Tillman
“From the first time he'd met her, he'd sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a waiflike quality. She could be brash, and at times deliberately suggestive, yet she was painfully shy. She was incredibly easy to get along with, yet she had few friends. She was a talented artist in her own right, but so self-conscious about her work that she rarely completed a piece and preferred to work with other people's art and ideas.” PeopleFirstsArtStillsIdeasSelfArtistEasyQualityPiecesAirMetsConsciousFirst TimeContradictionShySelf ConsciousEasy To GetFew FriendsBrash Author:Charles de Lint
“It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.” PeopleThinkingShouldSelfVirtueConsciousVicesSensitiveContradictionSensitivityDealingsInsensitiveInsensitivity Author:W. H. Auden