Quotes with paradoxes

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• Bed is a bundle of paradoxes; we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; and we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

  Charles Caleb Colton
  English writer (1777 - 1832)
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• I am pretty sure that we err in treating these sayings as paradoxes. It would be nearer the truth to say that it is life itself which is paradoxical and that the sayings of Jesus are simply a recognition of that fact.

  Thomas Taylor
   
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• If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

  Alan Watts
  English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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• It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

  Anatole Broyard
  American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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• My documentary 'Split Decision' examines Cuban-American relations, and the economic and cultural paradoxes that have shaped them since Castro's revolution, through the lens of elite Cuban boxers forced to choose between remaining in Cuba or defecting to America.

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  American journalist and filmmaker
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• People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the position.

  Bernard Williams
  English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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• Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

  George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

  Søren Kierkegaard
  Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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• The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

  Marcel Proust
  French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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• The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

  Walter Lippmann
  American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• cuban-american
• intellectual
• documentary
• individuals
• themselves
• outrageous

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