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
The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only… — David Berlinski 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
I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history,… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You… — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
When I run into a paradox I think either I'm a total horse's ass to have gotten to this point, or I'm… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose. — Douglas Adams 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
The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It was the discovery of the quantum universe that changed everything, and that universe was so small and so dynamic that it… — Katherine Ramsland 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
You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
