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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker… — Soren Kierkegaard
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when… — Marcel Proust
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the… — Simon Sinek
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. — Alan Watts
When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be… — Wendell Willkie
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond… — Douglas Adams
It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as… — Northrop Frye
Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and… — M. Scott Peck
And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to… — Jonathan Safran Foer
And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only… — Howard Thurman
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful… — Thomas Merton
One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone… — Scarlett Thomas
I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes. — Ferdinand de Saussure
Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns. — Fernando Pessoa
The next day, when I was sober, I thought again about the three of us, and about time's many paradoxes. For instance: that when we… — Julian Barnes
When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and… — Brennan Manning
It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted to change myself… — Gretchen Rubin
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different… — Julian Barnes
This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that… — Walter Lippmann
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. — Oscar Wilde
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect… — Fernand Braudel
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! — Agnes Repplier
I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words. — Gretchen Rubin

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