Books Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He was self-sacrificing in many different ways, and my father was a man of paradoxes.

— John Carter Cash

“The story ‘Good Old Neon’ invokes two conundrums from mathematical logic, the Berry and Russell paradoxes, to describe a psychological double bind that the…

— James Ryerson

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

“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