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Creative quotes and quotations
On Contradiction...
Ideas are often found where other people are not looking, or by turning things around to look at them in a reverse sort of way. After all, if you consider first the area where you are looking now and the rest of the universe, then the universe wins big time on possibilities, though not on comfort.
See also
being different, chaos, deviation, rearrangement
Quotes
‘A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.’
‘The spirit of creation is simply the spirit of contradiction.’
‘All true knowledge contradicts common sense.’
‘The foolish man wonders at the unusual; the wise man at the usual.’
‘Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.’
‘Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.’
‘There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.’
‘First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.’
‘Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.’