Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms. — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I wanted stability and freedom - or at least I thought I did - and it's paradoxical. — Tara Fitzgerald 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
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
It is a paradoxical statement, but it takes incredible personal discipline to play with great freedom. — Dick Bennett 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
“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
The paradoxical War on Terror is based on a kind of willed stupidity; the willed stupidity of wishful thinking. Only the logic… — Mark Fisher 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 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
The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world,… — Thomas Nagel 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
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
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
You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder,… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Barring love and war, few enterprises are undertaken with such abandon, or by such diverse individuals, or with so paradoxical a mixture… — Aldo Leopold 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
For Jesus, it is clear, poverty is not the problem; it is the solution. Until human beings learn to live in naked… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
It is one of the greatest problems. It will appear very paradoxical, but this is true - before you can lose your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are… — Florence King Copy Share Image
How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping… — Rebecca Solnit 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
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
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
The imputation to Brodsky of Russian nationalist views is, of course, paradoxical and worth considering. — Keith Gessen 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best… — Auguste Rodin 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
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
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
“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
It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are… — Edmund Burke 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, and by the opaqueness of the computer-like mind. All three examples [Jacob Lorber, Edgar Cayce, and Therese Neumann] illustrates the paradoxical truth that…” quote by E. F. Schumacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15c/e-f-schumacher-8282_body_liberation-from-constraints-that-operate_2706636.png)
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