“To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect. — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“I am usually at my most brutally forthright when making shit up. That's the paradox of me.” — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The great paradox of life is that to fully live, we must let a piece of ourselves die.” — Darren Main Copy Share Image
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But maybe that was the trick—to accept the responsibility and forgo the control? To love without expectation? A paradox for sure, but… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are… — Ralph Peters 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
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
I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility…And the paradox of it all has been… — Rick Moody 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
“My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, "what about the great… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
If we have dwelled on Godel's work at some length, is it because we see it in the mathematical analogy of what… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
“There is a strange duality in the human which makes for an ethical paradox. We have definitions of good qualities and of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Russell’s paradox threatened to deal a far more serious blow to set theory than earlier ideological objections. The problem was this: consider… — Ananyo Bhattacharya Copy Share Image
Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I threw up again that night, half-afraid that my eyeballs would explode. But it was, by far, more important that I get… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked. “Make me”, I replied. “Beg pardon?” “Make me”, I repeated.… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization. — Adrienne Clarkson Copy Share Image
“Here's the paradox. We can fully embrace God's love only when we recognize how completely unworthy of it we are.” — Ann Tatlock Copy Share Image
The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise… — David Brin 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
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Diepzinnigheid die niet gebakerd ligt in paradoxale oppervlakkigheid is natuurlijk een gruwel.” — Jan Wolkers 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
Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . . — Yevgeny Zamyatin 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
