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
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of… — Sri Aurobindo 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… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“At which Charion Pratt blushed girlishly, to her own furious embarrassment, yet the eye she cast upon the little coxcomb was not… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
“Ah, it is impossible." "No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!” — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
I love silence. And one of the paradoxes about the way I live and also about my work is that definitely one… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking… — Lucy Walker 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
“At times, one can win clever people over to a principle merely by presenting it in the form of an outrageous paradox.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox… — Paulo Coelho 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
Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation… — John Elkann Copy Share Image
Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox:… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Even if you turn back the clock of the whole universe, you still can't stop and evildoer from exercising his free will.” — Bob Bello Copy Share Image
Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“The mysteries of life include the external and the internal conundrums that each person encounters in a world composed of competing ideologies… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
