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Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

– Erich Fromm

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When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

– Simone Weil

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Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

– Malcolm Muggeridge

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

– Mary Baker Eddy

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Man is an intellectual animal, therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two without the possibility of its ever being otherwise. A mere physical being or a pure spirit can alone be satisfied with itself.

– Hazlitt

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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

– Blaise Pascal

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The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

– Kedar Joshi

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Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

– Julius Henry Marx

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'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms.

– Niall MacDermot

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

– Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

– Ayn Rand

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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

– Douglas Adams

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