My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It… — Béla Bartók Copy Share Image
But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous,… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
“The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.” — David Shenk Copy Share Image
Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
This is the greatest paradox: the emotions cannot be trusted; yet it is the emotions that tell us the greatest truths. — Don Herold 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
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
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
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
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I was paralyzed with fear. It was unbearable to be among other kids who were just standing around being fine. It was… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest… — Os Guinness 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
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Welcome my new paranoia, if you are not my reality, so where the hell is the fucking reality!?!?! To be or not… — Fereidoon Yazdi Copy Share Image
I wrote a film for Tom Hanks and I wrote two films for Paul Greengrass that didn't actually happen. The paradox is… — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to. — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
