There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.
There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.
As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.
Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression "collective rights"? is a contradiction in terms.