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This quote is just one of 7 total Czeslaw Milosz quotes in our collection. Czeslaw Milosz is known for saying 'I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.' as well as some of the following quotes.
Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.
This quote is just one of 7 total Czeslaw Milosz quotes in our collection. Czeslaw Milosz is known for saying 'I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.' as well as some of the following quotes.