Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
Contradictions
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.
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
Biography – a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
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.
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
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.
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.