Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Paradox Quotes
HumanityMoralityParadoxVictoryWar How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
CognitionIronyMemoryParadox If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
DisillusionmentFateIdealismParadox It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
ContemplationMysticismParadoxTeachingsZen If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
LeadershipParadoxPeaceWar Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
ContradictionDualityInterconnectednessParadoxUnity Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
ParadoxReligionSpirituality I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
BeliefParadoxPhilosophySimplicity 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.
EliteMediocrityParadoxPoliticsPublic Good Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
CrimeLawOrderParadox The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
ClarityCommunicationParadoxUnderstanding In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
ParadoxSelf-ContemptSelf Respect Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
ExistentialismParadoxSelf Worth When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
