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20 Paradoxes That Are True | Mark Manson
No one system is perfect, and even if there were a perfect philosophy, who could perfectly apply it? As we explore some philosophical answers, we will try to keep an open mind and tolerate contradiction, honouring the fact that life is always more complex than any one system will suppose.
Derren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
contradictions may serve a heuristic purpose, setting those who struggle through them the task of negotiating complex values and personalities without reducing them to simple binaries.
Erica Brown • Ecclesiastes: and the Search for Meaning
A paradox is a seemingly self-contradictory statement that proves true.
The 7 most powerful paradoxes I’ve found:
The American political theorist Robert Goodin wrote a whole treatise on this topic, On Settling, in which he demonstrates, to start with, that we’re inconsistent when it comes to what we define as ‘settling’. Everyone seems to agree that if you embark on a relationship when you secretly suspect you could find someone better, you’re guilty of settli
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