This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
“If a person does not attend to the meaning of terms as they are commonly used in argument, he may be involved… — Plato 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
“One of life’s many paradoxes is that the more we focus on ourselves and our own well-being, to the neglect of our… — Jonathan Morris Copy Share Image
It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems… — William O'Neil Copy Share Image
“The story ‘Good Old Neon’ invokes two conundrums from mathematical logic, the Berry and Russell paradoxes, to describe a psychological double bind… — James Ryerson Copy Share Image
“Paradox though it may seem - and paradoxes are always dangerous things - it is none the less true that Life imitates… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If this world is a poem, it is not because we see the meaning of it at first but on the strength… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The next day, when I was sober, I thought again about the three of us, and about time's many paradoxes. For instance:… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense… — Jonathan Kieran Copy Share Image
I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring. — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
“Put all these numbers together and what do they add up to? In a sentence: We are the healthiest, wealthiest, and longest-lived… — Daniel Gardner Copy Share Image
