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“Paradoxically the roots of the radical's irreverence toward his present society lie in his reverence for the values and promises of the democratic faith, of the free and open society. He is angry with and hates those parts of the body politic that have broken faith with the future, with the dreams and hopes of a free way of life.
His is a quest for a future: where everyone would have a job, a real job--more than just a paycheck--a job that would be meaningful to society as well as to the worker; a future where everyone would have full opportunities to achieve his potentiality; where education, good housing, health, and full equality for all would be universal; a promised land of peace and plenty; a world where all the revolutionary slogans of the past would come to life: "Love your neighbor as you would love yourself"; "You are your brother's keeper"; "Liberty, Fraternity, Equality"; "All men are created equal"; "Peace and bread"; "For the general welfare"; a world where the Judeo-Christian values and the promise of the American Constitution would be made real.
Each victory will bring a new vision of human happiness, for man's highest end is to create--total fulfillment, total security, would dull the creative drive. Ours is really the quest for uncertainty, for that continuing change which is life. The pursuit of happiness is never ending--the happiness lies in the pursuit.”
Source: Reveille for Radicals
“Paradoxically, the sources available today (in the era of big data) are less precise than those that were available a century ago due to the internationalization of wealth, the proliferation of tax havens, and above all, lack of political will to enforce financial transparency, so it is quite possible that we are underestimating the level of wealth inequality in recent decades.”
Source: Capital and Ideology
“Paradoxically, they needed Indians to be Indians at the same time they needed to define all that was Indian as inferior and in need of Spanish domination.”
Source: Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
“Paradoxically, when a new law abolishing discrimination is passed, former victims tend to remain silent on the grounds that "now it's all over." So what went on is surrounded by the same veil of secrecy as before.”
Source: Happening
“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.”
“Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If I were once to settle down and be satisfied with the surface of life, with its divisions and its cliches, it would be time to call in the undertaker... So, then, this dissatisfaction which sometimes used to worry me and has certainly, I know, worried others, has helped me in fact to move freely and even gaily with the stream of life.”
Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“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.”
“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.”
“Paradoxically, in the field being a woman actually helps you: people often feel more comfortable talking to women, which is key in documentaries.”
“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”
Source: Evolution and the Theory of Games
“Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.”
“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.”
“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.”
Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
“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.'”
Source: Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli's Iron Rules Are As Timely And Important Today As Five Centuries Ago
“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.”
“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.”
“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.”
Source: Outside
“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.”
“Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations.”
Source: Dogen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen
“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.”
Source: Zen Body-Being: An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power
“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.”
Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“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.”
“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.”
“Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.”
Source: The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age
“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.”
Source: Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture
“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.”
Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual
“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.”
“Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.”
“Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.”
Source: Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul
“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.”
“Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.”
“Paradoxism is not just another linguistic term or a literature device, but perhaps it is the definition of our post-postmodernism and metamodernism.”
“Paradoxo de Epicuro
Ao longo dos séculos, muitos teólogos e filósofos tentaram resolver esse trilema. Santo Agostinho, por exemplo, argumentou que o mal não é uma entidade em si, mas uma ausência do bem, e que o livre-arbítrio humano desempenha um papel crucial na existência do mal. Isso sugere que existe algo que Deus não tem controle, que os humanos podem sim se elevarem ao que Deus definiu para eles, os planos divinos. Essa forma de pensar é interessante por usar lógica. Como exemplo, não temos como achar o elétron, entidade moderna; mas você toma choque na tomada e sua tela de aparelhos usam elétrons. Elétrons são ondas de possibilidades, mecânica quântica. Isso se chama princípio da incerteza de Heisenberg. Na prática, nunca vamos “ver” um elétron: quando tentamos ver ele, ele se concentra em um ponto, as ondas de possibilidades desaparecem. Partícula ou ondas?? não sabemos, usamos os dois. No caso dessa forma dele de pensar, sugere o uso da lógica, introduzida por São Tomé.”
Source: Ciência para não cientistas: como ser mais racional em um mundo cada vez mais irracional (Vol. II: Religião) (Inteligência Artificial, Democracia, e Pensamento Crítico)
“Paradójicamente, alguna vez me había enojado con Víctor por tratar de hacerme olvidar a Justin... y ahora me enojaba cada vez más con Justin por no dejarme olvidarlo.”
Source: El pasillo
“Paradójicamente, por ser nosotros hijos de la contradicción, resulta que Miraflores es lo que nos corresponde, es la sede perfecta para poderosos ignorantes y confundidos que nunca han distinguido entre mandar y gobernar”
Source: El Pasajero de Truman
“Paraguay has had a U.S. supermarket boss as its ambassador for a while. He did the job well. He was there because he wanted to be there. Rather than the British diplomat who didn't want to be there.”
“Paraguay was beautiful, and the people were extrovert, kind and generous.”
“Paraguayans have no Italian blood and are half Guarani [Indian] blood. And the Chileans call themselves "the English of South America," which actually couldn't be further from the truth.”
“Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.”
“Parallel lines meet at infinity. Looking back from said point, do parallel lines ever not meet?”
“Parallel lines meet in eternity but
Parallel lives meet for tea”
“Parallel lives in the fabric of time
Muted existence in a pixelated lifestyle.”
Source: Dreaming in A Fish Bowl
“Parallel Realities
Here and now.
Other vibrations. Other frequencies.”
“Parallel to tenderness and cruelty, the cataracts of pleasure and pain are interrelated. Painful and pleasurable sensations instruct us of our physical boundaries. The collective scorecard of physical pain and pleasurable sensations define the evolving self. Our internal clockworks comprised of remembrances of times past, both painful and pleasurable, provide each of us with a telling emotional autobiography. What we primarily recall – pain or pleasure – is revelatory. How we act with kindness and tenderheartedly, or hardheartedly and cruelly is equally telling.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a hothouse for sexual ideas and simulations. Just look at the bill of fare served up in our movies, vaudeville and theaters, and you will hardly be able to deny that this is not the right kind of food, particularly for the youth. Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political and cultural idea.”
“Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.”
“Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.”
“Paralysis, anxiety stomachs, arthritis and many ills and aberrations have been relieved by auditing them. An E-Meter shows them up and makes them confess their misdeeds. They are probably just compartments of the mind which, cut off, begin to act as though they were persons.”