“Holding contradictory ideas balances the brain.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
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Speech, "The War and the Future" (1940); published in Order of the Day (1942)
Context: It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
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The Story of My Life (1903)
“It's the Idea that wins every time — the Idea with brains and guts behind it.”
Envoi
The House of the Four Winds (1935)
'Modus Vivendi' (p.29)
Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings (2009)
“The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident that all P-brains are created equal.”
The Universe in a Nutshell (2001)
“So limp of brain that for them to conceive an idea is to risk a haemorrhage.”
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 2 (p. 403)
Source: Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life: How Evolutionary Theory Undermines Everything You Think You Know (2010), p. 150