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
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
You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
One of Still Lifes many achievements is its paradoxical mix of intensity and stillness. Alexander Longs visions of landscape, identity and "History… — Terrance Hayes 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
It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original. — DJ Spooky 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
It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight. — Audrey Tautou 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
“Paradoxism is not just another linguistic term or a literature device, but perhaps it is the definition of our post-postmodernism and metamodernism.” — Rao Umar Javed Copy Share Image
I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most… — Chris Kraus 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
Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my… — James P. Carse Copy Share Image
It's a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. People think about trying to… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
It is a paradoxical statement, but it takes incredible personal discipline to play with great freedom. — Dick Bennett Copy Share Image
Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his… — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury 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
At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical,… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image