There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
“A pleasing paradox — The more frequently we contemplate our death, the less dominant its effect in our lives becomes. Like King… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“A mermaid is not frightened by her own duality. She is a walking contradiction of piety and lust, sobriety and ecstasy, brilliance… — Margot Datz Copy Share Image
“As a rule, I believe people shouldn't follow rules; rules should follow people.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal 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
“The paradox is “a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.” — Pearl Zhu 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
Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are… — Florence King Copy Share Image
One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“(On duality) Nothing can exist for us without its opposite—for even absence itself becomes a presence through the contrast of what is… — Alyssa Skyes Copy Share Image
“I’d say that most of these [poems in Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP] are just straightforward enough, but not entirely… — Sage Cohen Copy Share Image
“I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it's not paradoxical it's not true!” — C.B. Murphy 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
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I Have Found The Paradox If You Love Till It Hurts There Can Be No More Hurt Only More Love — Ashley Rosales Copy Share Image
“So I shut up and hold out a one-pound note, but he throws it on the ground, snatches back both pieces of… — Basma Abdel Aziz Copy Share Image
There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring. — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans. — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
