I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I'm not so much… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend! It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond,… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox:… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of… — Damian Pettigrew Copy Share Image
“The paradox of being a professional artist. How we spend our lives trying to express ourselves well, but we have nothing to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Science can explain what's happening down inside atoms and what's happening at the edge of the universe, but it cannot explain consciousness.… — Peter Russell Copy Share Image
“A proof represents a logical process which has come to a definitive conclusion in a finite number of stages. However, a logical… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western… — Richard Layard, Baron Layard Copy Share Image
“The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Our family has made its livelihood from the land, digging trenches for hundreds of miles cross-country. You could say this is a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as… — Kathy Mattea Copy Share Image
It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it.… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I do my own thing. I'm very much in the paradox of things. I enjoy the little things in life, what's big… — Katerina Graham Copy Share Image
I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Paradox though it may seem - and paradoxes are always dangerous things - it is none the less true that Life imitates… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion. Desire, at… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
“Know then, proud man, what a paradox you are to yourself. Be humble, impotent reason! Be silent, feeble nature! Learn that man… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The paradox of acceptance: When our mind becomes less attached and dependent on things being a certain way our happiness in life… — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Parks herself seemed aware of this paradox, calling her autobiography Quiet Strength—a title that challenges us to question our assumptions. Why shouldn’t… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by… — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
