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
“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
But I didn't think about this beforehand. I just went ahead and did it, and that's the way it turned out. So… — Bill Reid Copy Share Image
“More I try to straighten my life, more I'm overcome with the paradox I am. Once the sea attains its vastness, it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Is it a paradox to firmly state in one breath that you don't believe in an almighty, and in that same instance,… — D W Wilkin Copy Share Image
There's an element of paradox there - that at least you know where you stand with the fundamentalists. I mean, they're absolutely… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This… — Robert D. Richardson Copy Share Image
A cat is a purring parcel of paradox, a cunning collection of contradictions. A cat is lazy and busy, dainty and savage,… — Leonore Fleischer Copy Share Image
You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“It matters./It doesn’t matter. Build space in your head for this paradox. Build as much space for it as you can. Build… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“This wavering paradox is a pillar of the outlaw stance. A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Suppose there is a group of friends who create a club where the rule is to “not follow any rules.” However, “do… — Lucy Carter Copy Share Image
There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The kingdom of God is an upside-down kingdom. It beckons us to gamble all, to trust radically, to come and die so… — Ken Wytsma Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox presented by every general library: that if, to a lesser or greater extent, it intends to accumulate and… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Here's the pay paradox that Why Men Earn More explains: Men earn more money, therefore men have more power; and men earn… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“I moved through the world like a team of runaway horses in the hands of an obsessed and demented driver. But I… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“But that can't work, can it?" Said Richard. "If we do that, then this won't have happened. Don't we generate all sorts… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the dogma downloaded from our many cult-like institutions of higher (actually lower) learning, we’re not in any way separate from… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
“The average human lifespan compared to the age of the universe is the same as comparing a blink of an eye to… — John K. Brown Copy Share Image
![“I moved through the world like a team of runaway horses in the hands of an obsessed and demented driver. But I was already somewhere else. I bowed down not just to the trees, [...] but I bowed down as well to those three tomcats, I bowed to myself in the mirror, and smiled because I no longer…” quote by Bohumil Hrabal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d26/bohumil-hrabal-15672_fate_i-moved-through-the-world-like-a-team-of_2343051.jpg)
