Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in E. A. Bucchianeri Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World, Volume 2, AuthorHouse, 2008, p. 654.
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That is exactly the point, what we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Contradiction
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