What is personality? It's a collective set of an individual's thoughts, actions and emotions based on a wide range of experiences and perspectives they've absorbed, processed and expressed. On an ...

Our lives are littered with self-contradictions, though we prefer to keep them hidden. We conveniently ignore many of them to keep us sane, others to make us feel smarter than we actually are.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, by David Harvey, Profile Books, RRP£14.99, 336 pages Utopia or ...

Many great figures in American history are full of contradictions. Thomas Jefferson wrote stirringly about liberty while owning human beings as property. Woodrow Wilson was both the idealistic author ...

Human beings don’t like contradictions. This feature of ours has a name: cognitive dissonance. When we realise we hold two conflicting beliefs, or that there’s a clash between our values and our ...

To modern Western society, capitalism is the air we breathe, and most people rarely think to question it, for good or for ill. But knowing what makes capitalism work--and what makes it fail--is ...

Delve into the teachings of Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher who explored the unity of opposites and the nature of change in ...

Causing some short-term pain isn’t a problem, if it gets us closer to the day when Republicans rule. In the end, the House GOP leadership wanted a bill that contained a small amount of money to ...