Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as...

The Paradox of Freedom—the way to expand your freedom is to narrow your focus. Stay focused on saving to achieve financial freedom. Stay focused on training to achieve physical freedom. Stay focused on learning to...

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Kur vispār zināšanas cilvēci novedušas? Pie atombumbām, nāvīgām gāzēm un visādiem nāves rīkiem. Nebūtu augstskolu, ļaudis izkautos ar rungām, dabūtu punus un zilumus un – atkal varētu slēgt mieru.Pārspīlētas pieklājības klusinātajā gammā katrs spēcīgāks akords...

His mindIt says survival of the fittest butHis soulRevival of the idiotsSo good riddance, dancing

And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

Just because a prediction is true, doesn’t mean that it is not false.

ORTHODOX PARADOX Religion, unlike ethnicity, is inculcated Kamil Ali

If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of...

And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradoxFor he is everything and nothingHero and foolPotent, helplessAnd with one word of truth or treacheryHe will save or damn the earthBecause he is mad...

The absence of a muse can be even more inspirational than its presence

They’re sharing a drink called loneliness, but at least its better than drinking alone.

Don’t believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet...

There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrupt legitimacy, and to legitimately corrupt others.

Mom?” I said. She turned. “Can I talk to you about something?” “Of course, darling. Come here.”I took a few steps into the room. There was so much I wanted to say. “I need you...

A paradox may be paradoctored.

Without death Death is dead

Each cherry took about three seconds to eat. Three seconds to eat, but at least five years in the making. It seemed unfair to the hard-working cherry tree. The least I could do was to...

This Lord of natures today was transformed contrary to His nature; it is not too difficult for us to also overthrow our evil will.” Hymns of the Nativity, Hymn 1:97, pg. 74 in Ephrem the...

Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.

Perhaps part of the uncanny allure of fashionable clothing resides in the paradoxical impact of its expressiveness: the act of covering up with mere dead matter–cloth, fur, leather, or even metal when it is ingeniously...

There is a beauty in paradox when it comes to talking about things of ultimate concern. Paradox works against our tendency to stay superficial in our faith, or to rest on easy answers or categorical...

Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness, but any particular person is not a necessary part of...

Il n’est pas certain que tout soit incertain.(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves as the rational species. But research in cognitive psychology and behavioral economics shows...

The trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

There are many, many, many worlds branching out at each moment you become aware of your environment and then make a choice.

It’s weird not to be weird.

In order for a god to be all-knowing, he must know even the fact of his own omniscience. But can he do this? He may know the totality of facts constituting the world; call this...

War is essential for peace.

…the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.

It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right,...

Welcome my new paranoia, if you are not my reality, so where the hell is the fucking reality!?!?! To be or not to be?! this is the paranoia of my sweet dreams. So you are...

Service that is purely self serving, becomes a vice.Do not serve, vice.

It doubtless seems highly paradoxical to assert that Time is unreal, and that all statements which involve its reality are erroneous. Such an assertion involves a far greater departure from the natural position of mankind...

Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are. Even the dictionary has trouble accepting a paradox, calling it ‘two things that seem to be contradictory but may...

A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

I am Dead, but it’s not so bad. I’ve learned to live with it.

The man lying on the sofa seemed friendly. But how friendly could he really be if he was a liar?

He was a committed ladies’ man and obtained a great deal of sustenance from the seemingly inexhaustible supply of women, but he guarded himself vigilantly against addiction, fearful of becoming fodder for that feminine allure...

Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always...

Language … has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.

Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

Friendship exhibits a glorious “nearness by resemblance” to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases the fruition which each has of God. For every soul, seeing Him...

I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it’s not paradoxical it’s not true!

That’s the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.