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“What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to ...”
“The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied...”
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
“You appear to be a mass of contradictions," Dr Washburn said. "There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, ye...”
“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
“It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”
“Now there are some, and I don't just mean Communists like you, but thinking men of all political parties, who think that not many of these gods actually exist. Some believe that none of them exist....”
“I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.”
“But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?”
“Such was the complexity of things. For what happened to her, especially staying with the Ramsays, was to be made to feel violently two opposite things at the same time; thats what you feel, was one...”
“So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.”
“She said that my good qualities were my bad qualities -- this I have come to realize is true of everyone. On the one hand, I was game, eager and perfectly ready to see what was in front of me. On t...”
“Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are. Even the dictionary has trouble accepting a paradox, calling it 'two things that seem to be contr...”
“What is considered [True] Knowledge? There should be solution from all sides, there should be no contradiction. It is a non-contradicting principle when a spoken sentence will be the same even afte...”
“Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particular shape by melting it into a particular mould--into the definiteness of success.”
“FV: Annandale defines 'definition' as "an explanation of the signification of a term." Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as "a statement of the precise meaning of a word." A small, perhaps ...”
“The profoundest thing writing teaches us is how much we contradict ourselves.”
“This was the bad version. This version was what later events told her had happened. It was as real as the other. They played simultaneously in a loop, yet Mathilde could never quite believe it. Tha...”
“If we presuppose that Jesus and God are oneas many (but not all) Christians dothen we can also infer that Jesus Christ was omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-benevolent, and it is with this that the ...”
