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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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✓Similar Perspectives

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

— Robert M. Pirsig

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

— J. L. Austin

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

— Blaise Pascal

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

— Michelle Shocked

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

— Shirley MacLaine

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.

— Robert M. Pirsig

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Ayn Rand

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

— Ayn Rand

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

— Denis Villeneuve