Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Excerpt: Paradox – Bound By Blood. The hands on a clock never falter, not for a second. One day ends; and a… — Patti Roberts Copy Share Image
There is some of the paradox of foreign policy polling. So on Iraq and Syria, the President is pretty much doing what… — Michael Gerson Copy Share Image
I wanted to feel like I could extend someone else's joy and not crush it, and that is the giant paradox nowadays… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“Moravec’s paradox, nicely summarized by Wikipedia as “the discovery by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers that, contrary to traditional assumptions, high-level reasoning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
I am really interested in who owns ideas of religion. What if I say I'm a libertarian, socialist, Occupy-supporting, anti-war, Christian? Is… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
There is a connection waiting to be made between the decline in democratic participation and the explosion in new ways of communicating.… — Robin Cook Copy Share Image
“Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The frustrating paradox is that coaching goalkeeping actually requires more resources than outfield positions. Unlike David Beckham and Wayne Rooney, who can… — David James Copy Share Image
What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“That’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“The...act of surrender—or devotion, as the case may be—was, to him, a kind of lifeline for those who sought a quick answer… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“I'm no one... I don't want to be anyone. I stepped into singularity to exist within a void. I'm no one... However,… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
The absurdist is concerned with the search for meaning in the Universe. He believes this search to be meaningless--hence the disintegration of… — Walter Wykes Copy Share Image
In the performing arts you have to have thick, thick, thick skin, because of all the rejection you face on a daily… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
That's an interesting paradox to think about. Make it legal and it's no good. Why? Because as long as it's illegal the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Anarchy is all around us. Without it, our world would fall apart. All progress is due to it. All order extends from… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“The world’s so upside down, I’m starting to think gravity is just peer pressure. What’s called normal feels like a costume party… — Julieanne O'Connor Copy Share Image
A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
A cat is a purring parcel of paradox, a cunning collection of contradictions. A cat is lazy and busy, dainty and savage,… — Leonore Fleischer Copy Share Image
Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This… — Robert D. Richardson 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
Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“First, you need to understand the attitude that the current executive committee has toward IT," says Richter. "Do they believe that IT… — Martha Heller Copy Share Image
“It doubtless seems highly paradoxical to assert that Time is unreal, and that all statements which involve its reality are erroneous. Such… — John McTaggart Copy Share Image
If anyone e-mails you something "by George Carlin," there's a 99 percent chance I did not write it. I didn't write "Paradox… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
“The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many… — David F. Ford Copy Share Image
“Human freedom brings with it the burden of choice and of its consequences. As humankind is akin to claim for its own… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
