“Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.
Or insanity.”
Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer
Source: Butcher Bird
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
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Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694–1768) German philosopher
Source: Fragments from Reimarus: Consisting of Brief Critical Remarks on the Object of Jesus and His Disciples as Seen in the New Testament, p. 75
“The sign of a truly totalitarian culture is that important truths simply lack cognitive meaning”
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
letter to Alexander Cockburn (1 March 1990), later paraphrased in Deterring Democracy (1992) p. 345.
Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994
Context: The sign of a truly totalitarian culture is that important truths simply lack cognitive meaning and are interpretable only at the level of "Fuck You", so they can then elicit a perfectly predictable torrent of abuse in response. We've long ago reached that level.
“Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Source: Opium: The Diary of His Cure
“Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.”
Celia Green (1935) British philosopher
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
“A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein book Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.
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Original German: Die Wahrheit der Tautologie ist gewiss, des Satzes möglich, der Kontradiktion unmöglich
Source: 1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
“Jealousy and envy are the signs of lack of emotional control in your life.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure
Source: Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille