“...feeling of being everything and the evidence of being nothing.' I happened across this phrase in my youth, and was overwhelmed by… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Stockdale Paradox This finding is named after Admiral James Stockdale, winner of the Medal of Honor, who survived seven years in a… — Harvard Business School Press Copy Share Image
“It is truly a great cosmic paradox that one of the best teachers in all of life turns out to be death.… — Michael A. Singer Copy Share Image
New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“If the sphere of paradox-religion is abolished, or explained away in aesthetics, an Apostle becomes neither more nor less than a genius,… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
I love silence. And one of the paradoxes about the way I live and also about my work is that definitely one… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“Writing about the spiritual life is like making prints from negatives...Often it is the dark forest that makes us speak about the… — Robert Durback Copy Share Image
I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox… — Minor White Copy Share Image
The power paradox is that we gain power by advancing the welfare of other people and yet when we feel powerful, it… — Dacher Keltner Copy Share Image
The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Perhaps part of the uncanny allure of fashionable clothing resides in the paradoxical impact of its expressiveness: the act of covering up… — Joseph Roach Copy Share Image
Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
As women, we're presented this false choice that is either our children or our work. But I don't think I fully understood… — Reshma Saujani Copy Share Image
“Truth is paradox and suffering is ironic. It's ironic that people who lead dull, safe and boring lives want to impose safety… — Chobo Copy Share Image
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I'll never forget a Podcast I did with Dr Joseph Mercola when my bestseller, 'The Plant Paradox' had just come out. He… — Steven Gundry Copy Share Image
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Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood. The Christian life is a life of paradoxes.… — Asahel Nettleton Copy Share Image
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Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to… — Hubertus Strughold Copy Share Image
“A pleasing paradox — The more frequently we contemplate our death, the less dominant its effect in our lives becomes. Like King… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
“How did this happen? How did we start up a nation from nothing and transform it into a nation of start-ups? The… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
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