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Tag Name "Paradoxically" (64)

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Paradoxically, the more you are yourself, the more universal your message. As you develop and individuate more deeply, you break through into deeper layers of the collective consciousness and the collective unconsciousness.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.
Tom Hodgkinson
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Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.
Lloyd Alexander
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Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
A. J. Muste
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Paradoxically, in its quest to make Americans more secure, the NSA has made American communications less secure it has undermined the safety of the entire internet.
Luke Harding
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Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.
Marguerite Duras
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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
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Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.
Paul Berg
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Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.
Dale Spender
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Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.
Warren Buffett
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Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way, we present ourselves as someone we think can be loved and accepted, and we conceal whatever would mar that image.
Sidney Jourard
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Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
Erich Fromm
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Paradoxically, capital has unleashed myriad objects upon us, in their manifold horror and sparkling splendor. Two hundred years of idealism, two hundred years of seeing humans at the center of existence, and now the objects take revenge, terrifyingly huge, ancient, long-lived, threateningly minute, invading every cell in our body.
Timothy Morton
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Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed
John Maynard Smith
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Paradoxically, the toddler's No is also a preliminary to his saying yes. It is a sign that he is getting ready to convert his mother's restrictions and prohibitions into the rules for behavior that will belong to him.
Louise J. Kaplan
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Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.
Mark Kingwell
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Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.'
Michael A. Ledeen
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Paradoxically, in the field being a woman actually helps you: people often feel more comfortable talking to women, which is key in documentaries.
Cosima Spender
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Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.
Peter Ralston
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Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.
Dana Gioia
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
Vaclav Havel
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Walter Inglis Anderson
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To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
Seth Godin
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