"जी.एं. ची निवडक पत्रे: खंड ३", २००६-२०१२ वाचायला सुरवात करायच्या आधी विजय पाडळकरांची प्रस्तावना चाळली आणि खूप गंमत काही वेळा वाटली - त्यांना जी.एंच्या व्यक्तिमत्वातील विरोधाभासांचे आश्चर्य वाटतय (उदा: वाचा एकतीस)!
विरोधाभासाशिवाय मनुष्य जिवंत आहे असे म्हणताच येणार नाही.
Gerald Frost on George Orwell:
"The contradictions have frequently been noted: he was a socialist intellectual whose finest achievements included a mordant critique of the hypocrisy and double standards displayed by the socialist intellectuals of his day; a patriot who held most of his country’s institutions in contempt; a passionate defender of historical truth who chose to write under an assumed name and who occasionally told lies; a self-styled champion of decency who backed causes that, had they prevailed, would have produced outcomes in which decency would have been difficult to discern; an atheist who decreed that his funeral should be conducted by the Church of England and that he should be buried in a rural parish churchyard. It is often the contradictions in an individual’s character that give it distinction; in the case of Orwell, these were more marked and more numerous than in most, but it is not clear whether he was even aware of them."
John Gray on Friedrich Nietzsche :
"... If his writings abound in contradictions, it is not because he was unaware of them, but rather that, believing truth in many areas of philosophical inquiry to be inherently paradoxical, he had no interest in system-building. ..."
फक्त दोन उदाहरणे पुरेत!
Artist: Barney Tobey, The New Yorker. March 1984