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America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up. — Malcolm X
Reality is neither subjective nor objective, neither mind nor matter, neither time nor space. These divisions need somebody to happen to, a conscious separate center.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not… — Elie Wiesel
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. — Robert South
Truth sounds paradoxical! — Laozi
Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny. — Meghan O'Rourke
It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight. — Audrey Tautou
Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned — Roberto Calasso
He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors. — Thomas Huxley
If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return to your former… — Richard Moss
God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own existence. — Kedar Joshi
Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical… — Paul Tillich
As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays… — Auguste Rodin
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. — Robin G. Collingwood
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leans… — Max Beckmann
It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it. — Karl Marx
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must… — Erich Fromm
Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children… — Alison Gopnik
The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite… — Stanislav Grof
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. — George Eliot
As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants… — Ralph Fiennes
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because, of course, people… — Hugh Laurie
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's… — Edward Norton

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