One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself. I dream of a hard… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The paradox is that, while a concern with past and future is obviously central to psychological functioning, to behave as though one… — Erving Polster Copy Share Image
Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It… — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“The Plant Paradox Program is actually a microbiome- and mitochondria-centric program that recommends a diverse array of the right plant foods at… — Steven R. Gundry Copy Share Image
A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Regulator Paradox ... The task of a regulator is to eliminate variation, but this variation is the ultimate source of… — Gerald Weinberg Copy Share Image
A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become… — Jedediah Purdy Copy Share Image
When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
A woman’s beauty is supposed to be her grand project and constant insecurity. We’re meant to shellac our lips with five different… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
I figured being a bed salesman was a job of biblically bad paradox. I mean, here he was, forced to stand for… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“The sorting we do to ourselves and to one another is at best, unintentional and reflexive; at worst, it's stereotyping that dehumanizes.… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an… — David Richo Copy Share Image
Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Are infinite possibilities a storyteller's worst enemy or best friend? I'd say a bit of both really and one must be grateful… — Nidhie Sharma Copy Share Image
“Here is the paradox of it: the more of an individual you become the more you realize we are interrelated, that success… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The mental game of business is understanding this Paradox: the better you think you are doing, the greater should be your cause… — Mark McCormack Copy Share Image
In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
“Time is always moving forward, and thus impervious to paradox, but by remaining here, by allowing the duplication, you are altering the… — M.R. Forbes Copy Share Image
“And while we may never be able to wrap our minds around the thing itself, it is by the power of a… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
LIFE Is A Paradox. Whatever You want, You Don't Get. Whatever You Get, You Don't Enjoy. Whatever You Enjoy, Is Not Permanent.… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
Living with reality is a very good trick, it gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of the molecules of… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Anyone who wishes to combine domestic responsibilities and paid employment with the least stress and most enjoyment might start by pondering this… — Faye J Crosby Copy Share Image
One talks much more about the evil than about the good. That is a paradox. We should only talk about the good… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
The soul lives forever by giving, not receiving. This is the grand paradox. You get most by giving most. Conversely, by receiving… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We live in a paradox: connected electronically but disconnected interpersonally. However, when you recognize the problem, you can take steps to correct… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox… — Bob Brookmeyer Copy Share Image
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