The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another. — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the… — Lawrence B. Lindsey Copy Share Image
“Paradoxism is not just another linguistic term or a literature device, but perhaps it is the definition of our post-postmodernism and metamodernism.” — Rao Umar Javed Copy Share Image
“Human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“One thing only can stand against the power of the unconscious and this, paradoxical as it may sound, is the power of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
One thing that everybody told me about directing was, 'Never compromise'. And the whole job is a compromise. So it's very paradoxical.… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjunction of… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
It might seem paradoxical that the biggest scientific instruments of all are needed in order to probe the very smallest things in… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
There's this divergence out there between the very small and the very large with the middle disappearing. There is something paradoxical going… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
The paradoxical War on Terror is based on a kind of willed stupidity; the willed stupidity of wishful thinking. Only the logic… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“How paradoxical of her to understand and misunderstand me at the same time. It drives me mad. I am inside her head,… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum… — George Greenstein Copy Share Image
…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
One can never be too rich or too thin' is an aphorism attributed to the Duchess of Windsor. Being both rich and… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
Reality is neither subjective nor objective, neither mind nor matter, neither time nor space. These divisions need somebody to happen to, a… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“However paradoxical it may seem, the film studio's ideal would be to produce only one film which would go on making money… — Jean Vigo Copy Share Image
Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art,… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Copy Share Image
It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The imputation to Brodsky of Russian nationalist views is, of course, paradoxical and worth considering. — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms. — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
It is a paradoxical statement, but it takes incredible personal discipline to play with great freedom. — Dick Bennett Copy Share Image
I wanted stability and freedom - or at least I thought I did - and it's paradoxical. — Tara Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Amidst this paradoxical existence emerges a dichotomy – a world dying outside, while we, ensnared in our paradisiacal illusion, merely survive without… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“As paradoxical as it sounds: The best way to shield yourself from nasty surprises is to anticipate them.” — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an… — David Antin Copy Share Image
