Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
“Richard P Feynman was fascinated by the Moon; he tried in earnest to see the Moon. But science could only see the… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Aquinas wondered what would happen if God wanted to achieve universal resurrection. In other words, bringing everybody who had ever lived back… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
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And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Childhood hunger in America is as much a paradox as it is a tragedy. Why, in the wealthiest country in the world,… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
“My son used to believe that he could look at a plane in flight and make it explode in midair by simply… — Don Delillo Copy Share Image
Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes… — Daniel Coyle Copy Share Image
“The Government simply cannot make up their mind or they cannot get the prime minister to make up his mind. So they… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I nurture my close relationships like priceless lamps. That's part of why the job itself is inherently difficult and kind of a… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
What interests me is the following paradox: of how, precisely in our liberal societies, where no one can even imagine a transcendental… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“And on that note, why are they called the No Name Mountains?” Moore continued as he stoked the fire, poking at it… — Abigail Roux Copy Share Image
“Being a fool the right way means not being the kind of fool who uncritically accepts so-called real-world truths that attempt to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“It was not merely that his brother was dead. His brain, too young to realize the full paradox, wondered with an obscure… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Whether you like it or not, France's history is unique in Europe. Not to put too fine a point on it, France… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature,… — Stig Dagerman Copy Share Image
Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The deep paradox uncovered by AI research: the only way to deal efficiently with very complex problems is to move away from… — Daniel Crevier Copy Share Image
most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
I do not regret my youth and its beliefs. Up to now, I have wasted my time to live. Youth is the… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid -… — Amanda Hearst Copy Share Image
There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The paradox in China is that while some things change very rapidly, others don't. The appearance of its cities may be entirely… — Sze Tsung Leong Copy Share Image
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I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo… — John Barth Copy Share Image
The most fundamental paradox is that, if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“The world’s so upside down, I’m starting to think gravity is just peer pressure. What’s called normal feels like a costume party… — Julieanne O'Connor Copy Share Image
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