The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. — Robert South Copy Share Image
“Truth may be mysterious, indeed even paradoxical, but never, never, never contradictory.” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Money is either the best or the worst area of communication in our marriages. — Larry Burkett Copy Share Image
Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 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
As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist. — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something… — Bertrand Russell 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
It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
One thing that everybody told me about directing was, 'Never compromise'. And the whole job is a compromise. So it's very paradoxical.… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical… — Robert Linssen Copy Share Image
It might seem paradoxical that the biggest scientific instruments of all are needed in order to probe the very smallest things in… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess,… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Some people are happy when they are at the sea; I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I can't agree that what we're seeing is a matter of the American bourgeoisie confronting workers everywhere. It's more like the international… — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“large birds flew swiftly over the Bois, as over a real wood, and with shrill cries perched, one after another, on the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning? The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without so… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
By natural means, as the Lord always operates for the accomplishment of his purposes, means so simple that the thoughtless and unbelieving… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it. — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image