The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves… — Hal Herzog Copy Share Image
“Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of… — C. JoyBell C 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
“The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. The second worst… — Paul La Farge Copy Share Image
If love is so wonderful, why does not everyone love? If love hurts so much, why does anyone love? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“A paradox is a truth in absolute defiance of the instant powers of logic to communicate it.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that… — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the… — Barbara Januszkiewicz Copy Share Image
For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is… — Abigail Adams 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
“A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.” — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
We dream to suffer, but we also suffer to dream. Love to hurt as we hurt to love. We speak kindly to… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections. — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
