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A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by… — Theodor Adorno
These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides. — Swami Vivekananda
God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is… — Swami Vivekananda
This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all these contradictions, the… — Swami Vivekananda
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications… — Clifford Irving
A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a… — Lawrence Kushner
We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me… — Mark Lawrence
Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact,… — Kathleen Tessaro
I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy — Czeslaw Milosz
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life. — Chaim Potok
We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us. — Lisa Lutz
I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other… — Angela Davis
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them. — William Blake
Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread… — Frederick The Great
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of… — Alexander Rodchenko
One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to… — Bernard Crick
It's not hard to see why. Although it adds to our overall understanding of Benghazi, even a cursory read reveals sloppy errors of fact and… — Stephen F. Hayes
Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions. — Roberto Assagioli
Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible for the… — Robert Grudin
The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born… — Naomi Wolf
The current operating system [culture] is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath our own feet.… — Terence McKenna
When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck… — Deepak Chopra
The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information,… — Jeff Bezos
As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel… — Kris Kristofferson
We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and… — Shams Tabrizi

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