#paradoxical

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Power is paradoxical.


Friedrich Durrenmatt


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Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is ‘open-minded’ and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware.


Julius Evola


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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.


Bertrand Russell


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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.


Bertrand Russell


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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


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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.


Andy Rooney


#appeal #appeals #everyone #getting #getting old

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#backward #believe #forward #look #may

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.


Walter Anderson


#find #joy #love #neither #never

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.


Clive Barker


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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.


George Eliot


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