“Amidst this paradoxical existence emerges a dichotomy – a world dying outside, while we, ensnared in our paradisiacal illusion, merely survive without… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster… — C. A. Bartol 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
“Truth may be mysterious, indeed even paradoxical, but never, never, never contradictory.” — R.C. Sproul 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
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
It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
The Internet is such a paradoxical space - it's limitless and totally bounded, apparently free yet corporate-controlled, apparently invisible yet surveilled, a… — Joyelle McSweeney 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
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
[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
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
Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but,… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
“And while we may never be able to wrap our minds around the thing itself, it is by the power of a… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which… — Marion G. Romney 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
There is a good deal of excellent research on child's play. It has shown conclusively that through play, with the freedom of… — Leo Buscaglia 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
A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in… — William Monahan 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
It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The imputation to Brodsky of Russian nationalist views is, of course, paradoxical and worth considering. — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art,… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Copy Share Image
“However paradoxical it may seem, the film studio's ideal would be to produce only one film which would go on making money… — Jean Vigo Copy Share Image
Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“One thing only can stand against the power of the unconscious and this, paradoxical as it may sound, is the power of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I wanted stability and freedom - or at least I thought I did - and it's paradoxical. — Tara Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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