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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Human freedom brings with it the burden of choice and of its consequences. As humankind is akin to claim for its own… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many… — David F. Ford Copy Share Image
If we could travel into the past, it's mind-boggling what would be possible. For one thing, history would become an experimental science,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest sleepers that people are going to be able to dig into later is 'Fermi Paradox,' it's… — M. Shadows 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
“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
“If you think about it long enough, you see that the paradox is actually pointing you to the idea that we have… — Sam Munson Copy Share Image
“The profound paradox is that the great man became more confident in his approach to others, including the man of his own… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“A mermaid is not frightened by her own duality. She is a walking contradiction of piety and lust, sobriety and ecstasy, brilliance… — Margot Datz Copy Share Image
“It’s a paradox. If I’m not strong enough to say no to my dad, I’m surely not strong enough to run the… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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 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
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
It's such a paradox for them to say, "Oh, my God, I've thrown away my life," and continue to do that for… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
“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
I do not think it is logical to try and outsmart the smartest people. Instead, my weapons are irony and paradox. The… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Happiness consists in finding out precisely what the "one thing necessary" may be, in our lives, and in gladly relinquishing all the… — Thomas Merton 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
“Sometimes things seem out of our hands. They are, mostly. The great paradox is that this thing is totally out of our… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The incompetent always present thmeselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small minded as patriots,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
