“Am struck by paradoxical thought that youth is by no means the happiest time of life, but that most of the rest… — E.M. Delafield Copy Share Image
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental… — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the… — Franz Alexander Copy Share Image
Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“… mourning is a paradoxical process in which a person must affirm precisely those orphaned desires that are most unrealistic and impossible… — Sandra Buechler 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
“large birds flew swiftly over the Bois, as over a real wood, and with shrill cries perched, one after another, on the… — Marcel Proust 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
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 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
Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Abraham responds "Here I am" when God asks him to sacrifice his son, and he answers "Here I am" when his son… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
“In fact, the most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved,… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the… — Tom Robbins 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
Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in… — Steve Stern Copy Share Image
“Poetry isn't important in today's culture, but the fact that it's useless and people still continue to write it makes it important,… — Aaron Mc Collough Copy Share Image
