What contradictions there are in the world.
Someone I care about very much is in a place that has been characterized by poverty, malnourishment, armed conflict, systematic rape, and years upon years of exploitation and oppression primarily by outsiders. And then there is this—the search for worlds and ideas far beyond ourselves.
This slideshow, combined with things I’ve been writing and thinking about lately, reinforced like nothing else for me that life is vast, beautiful, terrifying, confounding, and utterly incoherent.
“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
—Georges Bataille
“That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.”
—David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”
—Gilbert K. Chesterton
