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“See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.” Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
“The way up and the way down are one and the same.” Heraclitus, On Nature
“One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“Now, because we cannot know what God is, but rather what He is not, we have no means for considering how God is, but rather how He is not.” Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
“As if there could possibly be true stories; things happen one way and we tell about them in the opposite sense.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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