“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“The invariable sign of doctrines invented by men is confusion, contradiction, absurdity, and obscenity”
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Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
Essays in Honour of E. H. Carr (1974) edited by Chimen Abramsky, p. 9
Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) American artist
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' <br class="br">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' <br class="br">1950s
“A great idea invariably creates as many problems as it solves: that is a sign of its greatness.”
Herbert Dingle (1890–1978) British astronomer
page 63 https://books.google.com/books?id=hwpKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA63 <br class="br">Relativity for All, London, 1922
“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
Baron d'Holbach (1723–1789) French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist
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 <br class="br">Translator unknown. Original publication in French at Amsterdam, 1772, as Le bon sens ("Common Sense"), and often attributed to John Meslier.
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879–1973) Tamil politician and social reformer
Veeramani, Collected Works of Periyar, p. 511.
Untouchability
Nick Bostrom book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Source: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014), Ch. 5
“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.”
Henry Miller book Tropic of Capricorn
Tropic of Capricorn http://books.google.com/books?id=_HAhCxNs-QUC&lpg=PA176&q=&quot;Confusion+is+a+word+we+have+invented+for+an+order+which+is+not+understood&quot;&pg=PA176#v=onepage (1939)
