It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . . — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake… — William Watson Purkey Copy Share Image
“Diepzinnigheid die niet gebakerd ligt in paradoxale oppervlakkigheid is natuurlijk een gruwel.” — Jan Wolkers Copy Share Image
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Here's the paradox. We can fully embrace God's love only when we recognize how completely unworthy of it we are.” — Ann Tatlock Copy Share Image
To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization. — Adrienne Clarkson Copy Share Image
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“The ancient sages never put their teachings in systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist,… — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
“The paradox of democracy is that its stability is born of its openness to upheaval through elections, legislation, and social action. Disruption… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to… — Steven James 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
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I think that in this globalised world, the local is going to become more and more important - it is a paradox.… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
Salman is a paradox. He has this image of a moody actor who turns up late for shoots or doesn't turn up… — Asin Copy Share Image
If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
What’s this? What are the antagonists doing here – infiltrating their own audience? Well, they’re not really. It’s somebody else’s audience at… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Hackman's paradox: Groups have natural advantages: they have more resources than individuals; greater diversity of resources; more flexibility in deploying the resources;… — J. Richard Hackman Copy Share Image
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“I am usually at my most brutally forthright when making shit up. That's the paradox of me.” — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The great paradox of life is that to fully live, we must let a piece of ourselves die.” — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne) — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.” — David Shenk Copy Share Image
The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect. — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance. — Matthew Syed Copy Share Image
There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
