The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original. — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
I wanted stability and freedom - or at least I thought I did - and it's paradoxical. — Tara Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game — Louise Bates Ames Copy Share Image
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. — Robert South Copy Share Image
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when… — Patrick Dodson Copy Share Image
Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
“That's what's so paradoxical. First of all, they take our people's pride, and when it's gone they're scared to death of treading… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an… — Damian Pettigrew Copy Share Image
Tolerance is an essential value in the modern world, and we have daily reminders of how awful the alternatives to it are.… — Samuel Scheffler Copy Share Image
There's this divergence out there between the very small and the very large with the middle disappearing. There is something paradoxical going… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling.… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
I have no expertise of other religious traditions so I'm not going to opine on them, but in Islam the more you… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
We pass our values, ideas and moral character on to our children, but we do that knowing that our children are going… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum… — George Greenstein Copy Share Image
Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
