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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: jbe who wrote (34484)4/12/1999 3:13:00 AM
From: nihil   of 108807
 
And we need contradictions, too. Was it Keats who said that the mark of
an intelligent mind was the ability to entertain two contradictory ideas
simultaneously? Somebody said it, anyway.

That's for sure. It was F. Scott Fitzgerald, in the Crack-Up.
He added the proviso "and still retain the ability to function."
Thus the whole thing is so:
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
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