“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel
“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”
Kerstin Knopf
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff
“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”
Yan Suarsana
