“I was in harmony with everything and I was saved, too, but lost in a way as well... but I think this… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
“The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“There is no light in knowledge unless it illuminates the life of mankind.” — Rao Umar Javed Copy Share Image
Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
“What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
There's a thing that if you - somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Yeah but Father, is that what you meant by God being a paradox? How he was so pleased to get a chance… — John Sladek Copy Share Image
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in… — Denis Donoghue Copy Share Image
An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have… — George A. Moore 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
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
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
“I was tempted to tell the whole truth. But in moments when a confession was about to seep out, I stopped myself,… — Sascha Rothchild Copy Share Image
One paradox I have found is that, the more you use computers in picture-making, the more hand-made the picture becomes. Oddly, then,… — Jeff Wall Copy Share Image
“It was the discovery of the quantum universe that changed everything, and that universe was so small and so dynamic that it… — Katherine Ramsland Copy Share Image
Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's a paradox here! Kierkegaard's own indirect communication proposes that we start with the experience of those who don't believe… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“Isn't that the key to our easy divorces? If we cared for women in the old barbarous possessive way do you suppose… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox. — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“Everybody one meets is a paradox nowadays. It is a great bore. It makes society so obvious.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
If love is so wonderful, why does not everyone love? If love hurts so much, why does anyone love? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“The paradox is “a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“The paradox is that people are zealous about some brands, whether they are advertised or not.” — Patrick Hanlon Copy Share Image
In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life. — Ben Sherwood Copy Share Image
“It's an incredible paradox that being a doctor is so degrading and yet is so valued by society” — Samuel Shem Copy Share Image
An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox,...that longs for certainty, fidelity, compassion, and plays roulette with anything precious.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Mastering the paradox of star brands is very difficult and rare - fortunately. — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
