As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene.… — Margrethe Vestager Copy Share Image
“What conclusion is to be drawn from this paradox so worthy of being born in our time; and what will become of… — Jean Jaques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Beware those who stand nearest, for they see both your strengths and your scars. The hand that offers comfort can just as… — Pierre Lagrenat Copy Share Image
The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
“It is a paradox, then, that while we insist on the sovereignty of individual choice in all that we do and buy… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“Lately I’ve had to redefine the word “knowledge” to a knowledge that cannot know anything. I’m dealing not in careless absurdities here… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“In this temporal existence, perfection is an illusion, regardless of those who believe in its concept. Perfection is devoid of any value.… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“The Angel of Death took the woman's frail hand. "Don't be afraid." she said. "Life is your past. Death, on the other… — Patti Roberts Copy Share Image
“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You… — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can… — Andrew Ferguson Copy Share Image
I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
“The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. The second worst… — Paul La Farge Copy Share Image
The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“The paradox of health care is that it is one of the most powerful ways of fighting poverty, yet can itself become… — The Lancet Copy Share Image
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and… — Joy Page Copy Share Image
To a lot of Africans, seeing an animal is a something of a rarity. So it's a paradox of this sort of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired… — Robert Browning 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
“I call it the Pretty Paradox. Pretty girls always want guys who treat them, and most everyone else, like complete shit. It… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony… — Itzhak Bentov Copy Share Image
There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons present us with a paradox: We spend billions of dollars building and maintaining them in the hope that we never… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
