Paradoxical Quotes - Page 6

• The truest sayings are paradoxical.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Truest

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• There's this divergence out there between the very small and the very large with the middle disappearing. There is something paradoxical going on where there is this access and we can seek out things on the fringes, but that doesn't describe the overall reality, because the big are bigger than ever.

  Astra Taylor

  Reality, Fringe, Disappear

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We pass our values, ideas and moral character on to our children, but we do that knowing that our children are going to revise our knowledge and reshape their values. There's something very paradoxical and profound about being a parent as opposed to parenting. We put in all this effort and energy not so that we can shape a child of a particular sort, but so that all sorts of possibilities can happen in the future.

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, Character, Profound

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Needs, Tragic

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.166, Open Road Media

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• It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all had at some moment. Some of us experienced it first as a condemnation, later transformed into consciousness and action. The search for the present is neither the pursuit of an earthly paradise nor that of a timeless eternity: it is the search for a real reality.

  Octavio Paz

  Real, Feelings, Paradise

  "Transformation of Evil". Book by Debra Redman, p. 119, January 4, 2010.

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• Budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break all deficit records. In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now.

  John F. Kennedy

  Running, Cutting, Long

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.

  Chris Kraus

  Thinking, Self, Talking

  "I Love Dick". Book by Chris Kraus, 2015.

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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

  America, Cracks, Ifs

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• It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteristic feature of the socialist economy.

  Michal Kalecki

  Socialist Economy, Advantage, Characteristics

  Michal Kalecki (1971). “Selected Essays on the Dynamics of the Capitalist Economy 1933-1970”, p.97, CUP Archive

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• 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. But reality is all and nothing, the totality and the exclusion, the fullness and the emptiness, fully consistent, absolutely paradoxical. You cannot speak about it, you can only lose yourself in it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Space, Mind

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• 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 afraid of paradoxes.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Names, Doe

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.165, Schocken

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• Truth sounds paradoxical!

  Laozi

  Truth, Sound

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• Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned

  Roberto Calasso

  Inspirational

  Roberto Calasso, William Weaver, Stephen Sartarelli (1994). “The Ruin of Kasch”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Loss, Tiny, Enormous

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• It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

  Audrey Tautou

  Might, Likes, Limelight

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• 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 so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.

  Auguste Rodin

  Light, Play, Shadow

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Artist, Instant, Precarious

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• The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one.

  Bridget Riley

  Thinking, Order, Magic

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• Barring love and war, few enterprises are undertaken with such abandon, or by such diverse individuals, or with so paradoxical a mixture of appetite and altruism, as that group of avocations known as outdoor recreation. It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature. But wherein lies the goodness, and what can be done to encourage its pursuit?

  Aldo Leopold

  Lying, War, People

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.165, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution

  Richard Dawkins

  Needs, Use, Records

  Richard Dawkins (2009). “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

  Stanley Fish

  Writing, Musical, Sound

  "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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• I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence - they look paradoxical - unless you attain to an unmoving dance, you have not attained.

  Rajneesh

  Silence, Effort, Singing

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• Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science.

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

  Art, Science, Research

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• It may sound paradoxical, but however tight our schedule, however many things clamor to be done, we don't need to hurry. If we can keep our mind calm and go about our business with undivided attention, we will not only accomplish more but we'll do a better job - and find ourselves more patient, more at peace.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Jobs, Mind, Sound

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• It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good.

  Marion G. Romney

  Lord, Command

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