The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. — Robert South Copy Share Image
The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast? — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game — Louise Bates Ames Copy Share Image
It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which… — Marion G. Romney 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
Some people are happy when they are at the sea; I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world,… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess,… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because,… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I can't agree that what we're seeing is a matter of the American bourgeoisie confronting workers everywhere. It's more like the international… — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There is a good deal of excellent research on child's play. It has shown conclusively that through play, with the freedom of… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Truth may be mysterious, indeed even paradoxical, but never, never, never contradictory.” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable. — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we… — Benjamin Peirce 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
“Very often among a certain highly intelligent type of people, quite paradoxical ideas will establish themselves. But they have suffered so much… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Great leaders are paradoxical. They catalyze, rather control, the work of their teams. They have an overarching vision for the team but… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
It may sound paradoxical, but however tight our schedule, however many things clamor to be done, we don't need to hurry. If… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
