One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly… — J. Michael Bishop 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
The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjunction of… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
It's paradoxical that, when you have better health, families choose to have less children, because they've been having enough children so that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast? — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Definitions and meanings change all the time. Truth and reality are very volatile, indefinite, multi layered and sometimes very paradoxical. That’s why… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are - hunks of spoiling flesh… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return… — Richard Moss Copy Share Image
America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
And, as soon as possible, be on the lookout for someone whose whole manner of speaking and being makes, as it were,… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather,… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable. — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
We're living history all the time, in the papers, in the news, you think about stuff and it goes into your brain… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image