[The devil] always sends errors into the world in pairs—pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of time thinking about which is the worse.... He relies on your extra dislike of the one error to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong.
Arguments that prove too much prove nothing.
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.
The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.
Anything that has only two choices is wrong.
Celebrity farmer. Now there's a phrase that should be an oxymoron. There are farmers on both sides of my family, and I can attest that the overlap between the way farmers live, work and think, and celebrity culture, is exactly 0%.
Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.
What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated!
This paradigm that says we have to choose industry over the environment or the environment over industry is the old way of thinking.
As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.
He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.
We all have a fight - some an easy one, and some a big one, and if you have formed the idea that there is a kind of dividing line in the world, and that on the one side is the good, and on the other side the bad, why, all I can say is that you have a wrong notion of things.
Just because somebody cusses doesn't make him a bad person. Just because a guy doesn't cuss doesn't make him a good person.
People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.
We are already ONE. We just think we are separate.
The callous use of general warrants and the disregard for the Bill of Rights must end. Forcing us to choose between our rights and our safety is a false choice and we are better than that as a nation and as a people.
Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.
Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.
