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Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they...

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

Quote by Harold Evans

As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.

Quote by Bill Gates about thinking, society

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want...

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about actors

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about civilization, danger, nation, peace, war, people

Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about nation

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

Quote by Joy Page about eternity, sadness

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes...

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion, worry

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and...

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Quote by Erich Fromm about love

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Quote by Erich Fromm about advice, mother, children, help, love, common sense, sense

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.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about experience, absolute

For a world of opposites to exist, it’s necessary to have at least two elements that generate the opposition between them. Could we talk about a world without opposites? We certainly can’t, just as well as we couldn’t talk about a world without...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about world

In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills...

Quote by Hector Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac about philosophy, magic, example, things, time

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any...

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Quote by Galileo Galilei about science

Being is the greatest paradox of life in front of death.

Being is the greatest paradox of life in front of death.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about existence, wisdom, death, being, life

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