"There are defeats more triumphant than victories."

Paradox, Defeat, Humility, Grace

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"You cannot identify an enemy without becoming one."

R. A. Delmonico, American Author

Paradox, Conflict, Identity, Reflection, Violence

"I agree. I don't understand how a guy everyone is terrified of makes me feel safe. I don't understand how a guy who stayed behind to protect me when he didn't know me has been shot. I don't understand how a guy who carried me out of an alley full of shattered glass is the enemy everyone is warning me about."

Katie McGarry, American Author

Paradox, Safety, Trust, Heroism

"And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Paradox, Truth, Lies, Deception, Appearance

"I am a religious person, although I am not a believer."

Philip Pullman, British Writer

Paradox, Religion, Belief, Spiritual

"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Paradox, Cats, Humor, Science

"Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice."

Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author

Paradox, Joy, Pain, Emotion

"Then I glanced at the ring on my finger.The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from-but where did all you zombies come from?I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once-and you all went away.So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light.You aren't really there at all. There isn't anybody but me-Jane-here alone in the dark.I miss you dreadfully!"

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Paradox, Identity, Solitude, Existence

"The irony of the human heart is that it's tormented both by the presence and absence of it's own soul's counterpart."

Crystal Woods, American Poet

Paradox, Love, Absence, Presence, Longing

"Truth with love is a lie."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Paradox, Truth, Love, Lie, Deception

"And nothing is, but what is not."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Paradox, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

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"Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves."

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"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."

Behavior

"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

Conscience

"As for dying we can only assay that once, we are all apprentices when it comes to that."

Mortality

"Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage."

Mortality

"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."

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"You cannot identify an enemy without becoming one."

"And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade."

"I am a religious person, although I am not a believer."

"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"

"Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice."

"The irony of the human heart is that it's tormented both by the presence and absence of it's own soul's counterpart."

"Truth with love is a lie."

"And nothing is, but what is not."

Explore more quotes by Michel de Montaigne

"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."

"Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves."

"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."

"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

"As for dying we can only assay that once, we are all apprentices when it comes to that."

"Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage."

"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."

"The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness."

"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."

"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."