Paradoxes Quotes

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Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas. — Mandell Creighton
The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves;… — Richard Sibbes
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. — Philip J. Davis
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to hide behind formalism… — Jean Dieudonne
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example… — Cyrano de Bergerac
The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the… — Chogyam Trungpa
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. — Maxine Hong Kingston
Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper,… — Pema Chodron
There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether… — Alexander Hamilton
Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything is only black… — Vincent Cassel
I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right. — Brian May
There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints of government. Such… — Alexander Hamilton
Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes . . . he balances between the… — Vaclav Havel
In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound. — Robert Thurman
The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the Atlantic slave trade… — David W. Blight
One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right… — Eula Biss
The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between student… — Karl Jaspers
Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution. — Edward Teller
The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that… — Alister E. McGrath
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. — Evan Parker

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