Accepting Quote by Czeslaw Milosz

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

— Simone Weil

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

— Czeslaw Milosz

The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible.

— William Poundstone

The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally…

— Sigmund Freud

We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete,…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of…

— Thomas Jefferson

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

— Carl Jung

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

— David Harvey

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

— George Santayana

We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs…

— Arthur Machen

“Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to share guilt…

— Steve Aylett