I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't — Nancy Cartwright Copy Share Image
“The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful. — Damian Kulash Copy Share Image
“It's a troubling paradox - I have total control, but only to the extent I have control over myself.” — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a strange paradox: Humans drown in the water, fish drown in the land. — Javad Alizadeh Copy Share Image
“The only way to be completely self-consistent is to be constantly uttering paradoxes.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
You have to recognise your responsibility to your community for your actions. Liberty doesn't mean that you are not held accountable. Without… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
But I didn't think about this beforehand. I just went ahead and did it, and that's the way it turned out. So… — Bill Reid Copy Share Image
“More I try to straighten my life, more I'm overcome with the paradox I am. Once the sea attains its vastness, it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There's an element of paradox there - that at least you know where you stand with the fundamentalists. I mean, they're absolutely… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Is it a paradox to firmly state in one breath that you don't believe in an almighty, and in that same instance,… — D W Wilkin Copy Share Image
This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Human hypocrisy: When one judges humanity as a whole, people have the habit of disagreeing, saying that everyone is different - unique.… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid,… — Arthur Bryant 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
“Beautiful blueberry nights fill my liver with morning and the nozzle of my heart spews forth an amalgam of blood. The sun… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“maybe love itself is a paradox, a figment of our collective imaginations!” — Suzette Francis Copy Share Image
Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody. — Jack McDevitt 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
“Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.” — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“As a rule, I believe people shouldn't follow rules; rules should follow people.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.” — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
