Fictional sayings
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
Essays in Honour of E. H. Carr (1974) edited by Chimen Abramsky, p. 9
1951; as cited in 'Robert Motherwell, American Painter and Printmaker' https://www.theartstory.org/artist-motherwell-robert-life-and-legacy.htm#writings_and_ideas_header, on 'Artstory'
from his responding at the 1951 MoMA symposium, in which several artists were asked to respond to the prompt 'What Abstract Art Means to Me'
1950s
“A great idea invariably creates as many problems as it solves: that is a sign of its greatness.”
page 63 https://books.google.com/books?id=hwpKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA63
Relativity for All, London, 1922
“Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.
Or insanity.”
Source: Butcher Bird
Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas (London: W. Stewart & Co., ca. 1900) ( Project Gutenberg e-text http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/gsens10.txt), preface
Translator unknown. Original publication in French at Amsterdam, 1772, as Le bon sens ("Common Sense"), and often attributed to John Meslier.
Veeramani, Collected Works of Periyar, p. 511.
Untouchability
Source: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014), Ch. 5
“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.”
Tropic of Capricorn http://books.google.com/books?id=_HAhCxNs-QUC&lpg=PA176&q="Confusion+is+a+word+we+have+invented+for+an+order+which+is+not+understood"&pg=PA176#v=onepage (1939)
