contradictions

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7a07919	" "If freckles were lovely, and day was night, And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie, Life would be delight,-- But things couldn't go right For in such a sad plight I wouldn't be I. If earth was heaven and now was hence, And past was present, and false was true, There might be some sense But I'd be in suspense For on such a pretense You wouldn't be you. If fear was plucky, and globes were square, And dirt was cleanly and tears were glee Things would seem fair,-- Yet they'd all despair,	contradictions identity if opposites poetry-quotes reality	E.E. Cummings
8f42ff9	...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being. [ ]	atheism atheist contradictions forgiveness good-works ignorance materialism materialist untruth	Thomas Jefferson
eb5da3c	Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.	contention contradictions	G.K. Chesterton
8d94423	All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying.	contradictions life-and-death religions	Robert A. Heinlein
cea6e8b	Life...is a wonder. It is a sky laden with clouds of contradictions.	contradictions life	Naguib Mahfouz
665df0f	[Patricia Highsmith] was a figure of contradictions: a lesbian who didn't particularly like women; a writer of the most insightful psychological novels who, at times, appeared bored by people; a misanthrope with a gentle, sweet nature.	contradictions gentle insight insightful lesbian like misanthrope nature novels people psychological sweet women writer writing	Andrew Wilson
99e05ab	Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle.	contradictions morality race race-relations racism truth	James Baldwin

7a07919

" "If freckles were lovely, and day was night, And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie, Life would be delight,-- But things couldn't go right For in such a sad plight I wouldn't be I. If earth was heaven and now was hence, And past was present, and false was true, There might be some sense But I'd be in suspense For on such a pretense You wouldn't be you. If fear was plucky, and globes were square, And dirt was cleanly and tears were glee Things would seem fair,-- Yet they'd all despair,

contradictions identity if opposites poetry-quotes reality

E.E. Cummings

8f42ff9

...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being. [ ]

atheism atheist contradictions forgiveness good-works ignorance materialism materialist untruth

Thomas Jefferson

eb5da3c

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

contention contradictions

G.K. Chesterton

8d94423

All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying.

contradictions life-and-death religions

Robert A. Heinlein

cea6e8b

Life...is a wonder. It is a sky laden with clouds of contradictions.

contradictions life

Naguib Mahfouz

665df0f

[Patricia Highsmith] was a figure of contradictions: a lesbian who didn't particularly like women; a writer of the most insightful psychological novels who, at times, appeared bored by people; a misanthrope with a gentle, sweet nature.

contradictions gentle insight insightful lesbian like misanthrope nature novels people psychological sweet women writer writing

Andrew Wilson

99e05ab

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle.

contradictions morality race race-relations racism truth

James     Baldwin