Abstraction Quote by David Shenk

The pursuit of strength is inherently difficult and entirely worthwhile.

— Mike Berry

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

When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe.…

— Edward Kasner

“Force is often used to enforce peace and an A bomb did bring world war 2 to a shuddering halt. The funniest people sometimes…

— Nidhie Sharma

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Paradoxes haunt the lives of born wayfinders, driving them to seek resolutions to the apparent contradictions in their lives, enticing them into the world…

— Martha N. Beck

“By connecting to nowhere you must in turn connect to everywhere, in the course of which becoming wise.  Nothing is permanent, but anything is…

— Alan Moore

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few…

— Gretchen Rubin

Much of the conventional analysis of India's stature in the world relies on the all-too-familiar economic assumptions. But we are famously a land of…

— Shashi Tharoor

There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable way of…

— Niels Henrik Abel

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…

— Julian Barnes

“I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything…

— Jonathan Kieran