On Contradictions

“One of the ways out of a contradiction is innovation. We can adapt our ideas and practices to new circumstances and learn to be a far better and more tolerant person from the experience.” (3)

“There is a powerful subjective element in defining and feeling the power of contradictions” (3)

"At the outset, however, I must first open up what is perhaps the most important contradictions of all: that between reality and appearance in the world in which we live." (4)

“Rarely is it the case that what is created and what is destroyed is predetermined and rarely is it the case that everything that is created is bad and everything that was good was destroyed… Crises are moments of transformation in which capital typically reinvents itself and morphs into something else.” (4)

“’If everything were as it appeared on the surface,’ [Marx] wrote, ‘there would be no need for science.’” (4)