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«That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy»
«I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.»
«Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
animal, Animal World, arriving, belongs, contradiction, essentially, faculty, former, grasping, instrument, latter, manipulate, manipulated, Manipulating, successfully, The Animal, the help
«Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist. Alcohol, in attempting to resolve the contradiction, produces vivid patterns of Truth which vanish like snow in the morning sun and cannot be recalled; the revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies , and as mysterious. Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attempting, cold comfort, comet, Comets, comforting, consolation, contradiction, contradictory, inherited, our planet, patterns, presents, Revelations, scarcely, skies, vanish, vivid
«The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.»
Author: Mao Tse-Tung
| Keywords:
cardinal, Cardinals, contradiction, dominant, historical, identify, identifying, line of work, resolve, The Cardinals, work out
«We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to aflict the world so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully»
Author: Martin Buber
(Interpreter, Philosopher, Translator)
| Keywords:
cautious, compulsion, contradiction, diction, powerfully
«The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.»
Author: Mikhail Gorbachev
(President)
| Keywords:
contradiction, improving, socialism, the market, The WELL, well-being
«We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
conceal, contradiction, disguise, duplicity, falsehood
«The bourgeois produces the bolshevist, inevitably as every half-truth at length produces the contradiction of itself in the opposite half-truth.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
at length, Bolshevist, bourgeois, contradiction, half-truth, inevitably, length, produces
«Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.»
Author: Groucho Marx
(Actor, Comedian, Singer)
| About:
Intelligence,
Military
| Keywords:
contradiction, contradiction in terms, military, Military intelligence
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