Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is… — Terence McKenna 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
I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the… — Michal Kalecki Copy Share Image
Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when… — Patrick Dodson Copy Share Image
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
“The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free… — Anonymous 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
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
The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the… — Chuck Klosterman 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
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
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
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
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
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
A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end,… — Soren Kierkegaard 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
So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or… — T. S. Eliot 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
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
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
It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness… — Robert M. Pirsig 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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
It is indeed paradoxical that an industry which epitomizes all that is new and up-to-date at the same time harbours some of… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
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