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" Quotes and Sayings About paradox

My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Obvious Desire Wish Start
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Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.

Happy Good May Make
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Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.

Solution Paradoxes One Better
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Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

Powerful Powerless Gaints Paradox
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

Bed Bodies Bundle Early
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox

Any Denying Maintain May
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My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.

Basically Blogging Improves Life
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Always Paradoxical Truth Words
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It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Between Connection Differentiate Educators
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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

Absolute Always Beyond Escapes
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Away Paradox Professor Take
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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.

Call Else Embryo Exposed
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Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
Better Even May Paradoxes
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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Become Begins Being Conscious
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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Paradoxical True Ignorant Absolute
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

Accept Change Curious Myself
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“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
Have Found Love Hurt
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The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy.

Against Biggest Bunch Democracy
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Failure Found Imperative Internationalism
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Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.
Life Paradoxes Roses Thorns
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Hope How Making Met
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Alive Beyond Cannot Complete
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If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home.

Actually Because Come Could
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An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

Idea Running Books Gain qualities
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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Paradox Dictator Climbed Power
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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.

One Paradoxes American Litrature
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It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

Idea Living Long Appeals
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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

In growth Reform Change Paradoxically enough
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Africa is the richest continent on earth with regard to raw materials.The paradox is that it is also the poorest in terms of the living conditions of its people.

Richest continent On earth Raw materials The paradox
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In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd,It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

In chess Intellectual game Where randomness Is excluded
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The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Whole world After freedom Each creature In love
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To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifferenc

Sense Worth Self-respect Love
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Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

Marriages Passion Destroy Want
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God's time to help is when things are at the worst; and Providence verifies the paradox, The worse the better.

God's Help Providence Better
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