It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“Mr. Chan," Grace said as the wind whipped strands of her hair across her face. "What are you doing here?" She shouted… — Patti Roberts Copy Share Image
By our very nature, we are a human paradox. We are a human being. The being is infinite and the human is… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in… — Denis Donoghue Copy Share Image
As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
“FV: Annandale defines 'definition' as "an explanation of the signification of a term." Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
The next day, when I was sober, I thought again about the three of us, and about time's many paradoxes. For instance:… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
We've lesser minds, but bigger wallets. Bigger houses, less wealth. More food less health, more friends less love. We've bigger schools, but… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“We are killing, every one of us, every moment of the day - just by living. And if one realizes this, is… — Mark X Copy Share Image
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth:… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
When you're under pressure and you're getting hammered by the media, it is a burden. It's the opinions that get you, and… — David James Copy Share Image
the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title… — Elisha Gray Copy Share Image
“Your reality is not gone, but the image of it is not with you anymore. I will be your mirror of reality;… — Rao Umar Javed Copy Share Image
When I moved to the United States [from Asia] in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I… — Geena Rocero Copy Share Image
You have to have tunnel vision as a dancer to get to where you're going. But once you get there, you have… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
“We're here to keep you in one piece, if you ignore us, you're quite likely to end up in two pieces, or… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Another is the paradox of charity or chivalry that the weaker a thing is the more it should be respected, that the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
From the moment he took the oath of office in 1993 until he left the White House in 2001, Bill Clinton was… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
I see a huge paradox in me - the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you… — Jacqueline McKenzie Copy Share Image
“there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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