Paradox Quote by Soren Kierkegaard Download Open image “Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.” — Soren Kierkegaard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Paradox Teacher Teachers Thinker
The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students. — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
But I didn't think about this beforehand. I just went ahead and did it, and that's the way it turned out. So I guess… — Bill Reid Copy Share Image
Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
You can think as Einstein as much as you want, but when you come in contact with another person as a work unit of… — Jaimoe Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a special dispensation I was granted the favor to have one wish. "Do you wish for youth," said Mercury, "or for beauty, or power, or a long life; or do you wish for the most beautiful woman,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known —… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights based on race, gender and, any day now, sexual orientation. The great liberal revolution, centuries in the making, that brought forth equality in law has been overthrown. In its place we see rising a new feudal… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share
:)So Micayla didn't quite understand the meaning of the word paradox, so like most things I struggle to understand or make sense of I draw up an E.G (example) in times like these Google or my Dictionary app becomes my bfff** [[Micayla is down2earth Lino is down2earth]] there's the e.g done the research so I came up with this: Analytical… — Micayla Ludick Basson Copy Share
When you're in a room with twenty people who've all got the True Theory of the universe, it's difficult to know what to do.… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The body is… — Margaret M. Lock Copy Share Image
I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and they're unarticulated, you feel pressure to choose. I feel more comfortable living in the paradoxes that I've named and laid out, whereas when I started they might have felt like real agitations. At least I see them more… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means of seeing one's imperfections and the consoling assurance of grace which makes this realization bearable. This ultimate paradox of high religion is not an invention of theologians or priests. It is constantly validated by the most… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing,… — David Richo Copy Share Image
The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
