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Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb. -- Warren Buffett
Paradoxically, the more you truly love that person, the more love you receive. -- Seth Adam Smith
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love. -- Erich Fromm
Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. -- Jalaja Bonheim
Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity. -- P. D. James
Paradoxically, when females reject the male, they usurp the masculine role and abandon the feminine one. -- Henry Makow
Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life. -- A. J. Muste
Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations. -- Kim Hee-jin
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde
Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance. -- Mark Kingwell
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
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible. -- James Surowiecki
Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted. -- Gloria Steinem
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
Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life). -- Edmund White
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
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
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
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
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries. -- Kenzaburo Oe
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
Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can dois to write, for in the act of writing we deny our mutedness and beginto eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us. -- Dale Spender
Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
Yet our common moral knowledge is as real as arithmetic, and probably just as plain. Paradoxically, maddeningly, we appeal to it even to justify wrongdoing; rationalization is the homage paid by sin to guilty knowledge. -- J. Budziszewski
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Paradoxically, the few eras of peace were times when men of war had high influence. The Pax Romana was enforced by Caesar's Legions. The Pax Brittanica was enforced by the Royal Navy and His Majesty's Forces. -- Jerry Pournelle
There was something about words and music together that allowed people to get nearest to honest truth about what was most difficult to say. Paradoxically, only through the essential instantaneity of music could you approach its eternal pertinence. -- Gregory Maguire
Paradoxically, resource-rich developing countries are often worse off than comparable countries that lack those resources. One reason for this is that large resource endowments provide a huge financial incentive for attempts to overthrow the government and seize power. -- Peter Singer
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
Paradoxically, the man who has failed and one who is at the peak of success are in exactly the same position. Each must decide what he will do next, choose the course that will lead him to the future. -- Kano Jigoro
The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other. The goal of marriage is unity and oneness, as well as self-development. Paradoxically, the more we serve one another, the greater is our spiritual and emotional growth. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries. -- Mark Hyman
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
Paradoxically, in descending into the depths of the unconscious in order to deal with the prima materia of the shadow, we are simultaneously on the path of ascending to the truly real, as we become introduced to the higher-dimensional light worlds of spirit. -- Paul Levy
We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a different education whose progress was measured differently. Paradoxically we're embracing standardized tests just when the economy is eliminating standardized jobs. -- Robert Reich
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
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
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Even in the case of a god, audiences - paradoxically - enjoy recognizing the human traits. -- Kenneth Branagh
In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile. -- Jonathan Nolan
My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results. -- Seth Godin
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds. -- Elfriede Jelinek
Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better. -- Kevin Brownlow
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
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
Since the election of Shinzo Abe as the new Japanese prime minister, by reputation a fervent nationalist, relations between Japan and China have paradoxically improved a little. -- Martin Jacques
For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement. -- Douglas Coupland
If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home. -- Patton Oswalt
I work very hard at creating complex characters, a mix of positives and negatives. They are all flawed. I believe flaws are almost universal, and they help us understand, sympathise and, paradoxically, feel closer to such characters. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that he would enjoy work. He hated it from the day he walked through the factory gates at 14 to when he left at 65. -- Mark Barrowcliffe
In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy. -- Barry Humphries
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
Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture. -- Laurie Helgoe
The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order . -- Albert Camus
A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. -- Anne Lamott
Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests. -- Idries Shah
Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women. -- Christian Rudder
Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children. -- Timothy Carey
As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair. -- Philip Yancey
There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you. -- Martin Scorsese
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds -- Elfriede Jelinek
The more people doubt their own beliefs the more, paradoxically, they are inclined to proselytize in favor of them. -- David Brooks
To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
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
Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. -- David D. Burns
[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross). -- Tod Papageorge
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
jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible. -- Penelope Gilliatt
What I mean to say is that in a highly exceptional reality [...] the non-exceptional can, for convenience sake, be written off as paradoxically exceptional. -- Haruki Murakami
Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition. -- Andrzej Stasiuk
You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see. -- Margaret Atwood
Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long. -- Andrew Davidson
The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations. -- James Joll
This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self. -- Lionel Trilling
As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else. -- James Lee Burke
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature. -- Alan Watts
This mixture of Polish, not Polish, of being European, gives me a perspective to see Poland through "new eyes" - paradoxically, more closely... because it's from a kind of distance. -- Malgorzata Szumowska
The Marxist thus finds himself in real agreement with the Christian in those two beliefs which Christianity paradoxically demands - that poverty is blessed and yet ought to be removed. -- C. S. Lewis
This is a collection of dexterous, loving, beautifully optimistic work that left me breathless and delighted.... Hannu Rajaniemi's magnificent science fiction - as is paradoxically appropriate - is pure magic. -- Amal El-Mohtar
Humans, I finally decided after a few more minutes of watching him, are paradoxically capable of both unattainable depths of kindness and unimaginable depths of cruelty, sometimes within the same body... -- Kiley MacLeod
But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference. -- Karl Rahner
I never wish to be easily defined. I'd rather float over other people's minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person. -- Franz Kafka
The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence. -- Margot Fonteyn
There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty. -- Jimmy Carter
I had over twenty years ago damaged the cilia in my ears. This has taught me many things. One thing I learned, paradoxically, is that there is much to be heard in silence. -- Mark Nepo
The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the brave ones, and they manage to impose their ideas on everyone else. -- Paulo Coelho
One growing threat to the stability of the U.S. economy, and therefore to its capability to continue to direct the global order, paradoxically emerges from its success in establishing capitalism around the world. -- Herbert Schiller
I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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