This is the greatest paradox: the emotions cannot be trusted; yet it is the emotions that tell us the greatest truths. — Don Herold Copy Share Image
“All days from the week are typical, that's all… nothing less, nothing more.” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation? — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Or--to quote another paradoxical gem of my dad's: sometimes you have to lose to win.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
True learning always creates a paradox of promoting disagreement in order to create a consensus. — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
“The absence of the latter means nothing, though its presence may mean everything” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing.” — Laren Grey Umphlett Copy Share Image
So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the… — David Hyde Pierce Copy Share Image
I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Paradox: You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the… — Jim Collins Copy Share Image
For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
I wrote a film for Tom Hanks and I wrote two films for Paul Greengrass that didn't actually happen. The paradox is… — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“Albeit, you are the only one to do the right thing, never feel alone. Always keep in mind that you're trying something… — M.H. Rakib Copy Share Image
Writing is both the excursion into and the excursion out of one's life. That is the queasy paradox of the artistic life.… — Lorrie Moore 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
“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
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
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
“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
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 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
Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic]. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate. — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
“The Elegance Paradox is this: to create elegance requires entirely inelegant preparation, but nobody should be able to see that.” — Dan Ward Copy Share Image
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles. — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
“the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
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