“For silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We live in a polarized world of contrived dualisms, dichotomies and paradoxes: light vs. dark and good vs. evil. We as Mexic… — Ana Castillo 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
Kant is not saying - about freedom or any other subject - anything of the form: "Not-p but we must assume that… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It… — Ugo Mochi Copy Share Image
Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“Oh, just some crap about the essential paradox of man: How we refuse to juxtapose the absolute to the relative, and some… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but… — Elisabeth Eaves Copy Share Image
“Yet the paradox is that scientific methodology is the product of human hands and thus cannot reach some permanent truth. We build… — Paul Kalanithi 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
“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
It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
“Paradox is not suited to burials, nor to weddings or births, in fact. Sinister — or grotesque — events require commonplaces; the… — Emil M. Cioran 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
The main advantage of blockchain technology is supposed to be that it's more secure, but new technologies are generally hard for people… — Vitalik Buterin Copy Share Image
We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to… — Abraham Kaplan 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
“Embrace paradox. Look for patterns. Beethoven holds the key but doesn't know it yet. Hiding inside your Shangri-La you might find the… — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But]… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
“It was too much happiness. Happiness puts you at too much risk - what if you were to lose it? Too much… — Jowita Bydlowska Copy Share Image
Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The dividing line forms-fashioned from: Dragon's tears Missed years Overcome fears The fire and ice paradox Seen with True Sight Darkness does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“It's all about the "French Paradox," that much-publicized puzzle of how French people eat all that fatty food and drink tons of… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
“If collapse is anything, it is a planetary immersion in the maelstrom of paradox. Unless we understand and honor paradox, we will… — Carolyn Baker Copy Share Image
Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“All the jokes about men sitting down on their hats are really theological jokes; they are concerned with the Dual Nature of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image