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Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote: “Propositions show what they say: tautologies…”

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

August 1, 2021 1889, April 26, Austrian, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Quotes by Philosophers

Fernand Braudel Quote: “Everything must be recaptured and relocated…”

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

December 8, 2020 1902, August 24, Fernand Braudel, French, Quotes by Historians

Michel de Montaigne Quote: “I write to keep from going…”

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

August 30, 2020 1533, February 28, French, Michel de Montaigne, Quotes by Philosophers

Jose Ortega y Gasset Quote: “Biography – a system in which…”

Biography – a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

January 30, 2020 1883, Jose Ortega y Gasset, May 9, Quotes by Philosophers, Spanish

Geoff Mulgan Quote: “Capitalism is not so much an…”

Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of the answers to its own contradictions.

January 28, 2020 1961, English, Geoff Mulgan, Quotes by Educators

Audre Lorde Quote: “Only by learning to live in…”

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

July 1, 2019 1934, American, Audre Lorde, February 18, Quotes by Poets

Henry Eyring Quote: “Apparent contradictions between religion and science…”

Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy. Such differences are to be expected as long as human understanding remains provisional and fragmentary.

January 17, 2019 1933, American, Henry Eyring, May 31, Quotes by Educators

Andre Breton Quote: “Everything tends to make us believe…”

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

December 12, 2018 1896, Andre Breton, February 18, French, Quotes by Poets
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