The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Only when you lift a burden, God will lift your burden. Divine paradox this! The man who staggers and falls because his… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Love is a gift, a miracle, a mystery. You are led to its threshold by your affinities, by your inclinations, and by… — Glenda Green Copy Share Image
It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending… — Pete Gill Copy Share Image
“It is a paradox, then, that while we insist on the sovereignty of individual choice in all that we do and buy… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
“We show our surprise at this by speaking of something called the “French paradox,” for how could a people who eat such… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
“Richard P Feynman was fascinated by the Moon; he tried in earnest to see the Moon. But science could only see the… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Aquinas wondered what would happen if God wanted to achieve universal resurrection. In other words, bringing everybody who had ever lived back… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
What’s this? What are the antagonists doing here – infiltrating their own audience? Well, they’re not really. It’s somebody else’s audience at… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Salman is a paradox. He has this image of a moody actor who turns up late for shoots or doesn't turn up… — Asin Copy Share Image
I think that in this globalised world, the local is going to become more and more important - it is a paradox.… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“He desired her vaguely but without conviction. They walked together. He suddenly realized that she had always been very decent to him.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and… — Douglas A. Blackmon Copy Share Image
Hackman's paradox: Groups have natural advantages: they have more resources than individuals; greater diversity of resources; more flexibility in deploying the resources;… — J. Richard Hackman Copy Share Image
The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“The Government simply cannot make up their mind or they cannot get the prime minister to make up his mind. So they… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I nurture my close relationships like priceless lamps. That's part of why the job itself is inherently difficult and kind of a… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
What interests me is the following paradox: of how, precisely in our liberal societies, where no one can even imagine a transcendental… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes… — Daniel Coyle Copy Share Image
Childhood hunger in America is as much a paradox as it is a tragedy. Why, in the wealthiest country in the world,… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
“My son used to believe that he could look at a plane in flight and make it explode in midair by simply… — Don Delillo Copy Share Image
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature,… — Stig Dagerman Copy Share Image
Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The deep paradox uncovered by AI research: the only way to deal efficiently with very complex problems is to move away from… — Daniel Crevier Copy Share Image
