#paradoxical

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

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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

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Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#before #evening #five #going #hope

But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big Chill, sort of. Four friends, who are not quite happy with their life, and every year they get together for a week and look for some comfort from each other. ↗

— Lawrence Kasdan

#book #chill #comfort #each #every

The words of truth are always paradoxical. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

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