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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity
Stephen King
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Plato
That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.
Aristotle
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
Christopher Hitchens
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
Marcel Proust
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)
Oscar Wilde
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.
Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.
Albert Einstein
Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.
Mark Twain
Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is a contradiction, the universe a paradox.
Kedar Joshi
Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)
Blaise Pascal
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Soren Kierkegaard
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot
