"I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth."

Paradox, Contradiction, Truth, Wisdom

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"I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth."

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"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

"Smartass Disciple: Please teach me about the truth, master.Master of Stupidity: Hmmm...tell me about your sexperience!"

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Paradox, Humor, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"After all, these were blood drinkers, beings who spoke gently, liked poetry, and yet killed mortals all the time."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Paradox, Blood, Poetry, Life

"Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas' - 'Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses'."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Paradox, Beauty, Pain, Contrast, Hope

"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

"Love: the sickest of Irony's sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die."

Christopher Moore, American Novelist

Paradox, Love, Irony, Logic, Chaos

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

Philip Pullman, British Writer

Paradox, Religion, Belief, Spiritual

"You cannot identify an enemy without becoming one."

R. A. Delmonico, American Author

Paradox, Conflict, Identity, Reflection, Violence

"The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them."

Jack Schwartz, American Scientist

Paradox,

"The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today."

Lewis Carroll, English Author

Paradox, Time, Desire, Hope

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"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels."

Artist

"I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife."

Mother

"In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter."

Thought

"I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one."

Ambition

"Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer."

Belief

"It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was."

Literature

"The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive."

Awareness

"You can't change the world you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. You can do small things."

Environment

"I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides."

Conservation

"Home is a desk. The amalgamation of a dream. Home is the cats, my books, and my work never done. All the lost things that may one day call to me, the faces of my children who will one day call to me. Maybe we can't draw flesh from reverie nor retrieve a dusty spur, but we can gather the dream itself and bring it back uniquely whole."

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