It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two… — Andrew Clements Copy Share Image
Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
There's a thing that if you - somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
“When you are going on a spiritual path, as I explain it, you are basically raising your vibration. You then begin to… — Dan Desmarques Copy Share Image
The mental game of business is understanding this Paradox: the better you think you are doing, the greater should be your cause… — Mark McCormack Copy Share Image
The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had… — Frank Miller 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
If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes… — Daniel Coyle Copy Share Image
the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending… — Pete Gill Copy Share Image
“There is a beauty in paradox when it comes to talking about things of ultimate concern. Paradox works against our tendency to… — Nanette Sawyer Copy Share Image
A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake… — William Watson Purkey Copy Share Image
“And when I'm lonely, with everyone around I go to my happy place where I'm alone” — Talia Basma Copy Share Image
The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
No matter what you’re feeling, the only way to get a difficult feeling to go away is simply to love yourself for… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
“The ancient sages never put their teachings in systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total… — Nigel Kneale Copy Share Image
I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding. — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
