#dox

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

#attempt #deceptive #devote #literature #most

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#civilization #danger #gigantic #midst #multitudes

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#going #had #healthy #i #iconoclastic

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#forget #learns #neither #orthodoxy #thought

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#found #hurt #hurts #i #more

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? ↗

— George Carlin

#humour #paradox #humor

Travis: We have to be friends. I won't take no for an answer. Abby: I don't mind being friends, but that doesn't mean you have to try to get in my panties every five seconds. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beautiful-disaster #travis-maddox #beauty

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer. ↗

— David Antin

#debates #entertainer #entertainment #greece #paradoxical

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day. ↗

— Brad Henry

#day #democracy #election #election day #far

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

#created #diseases #embargo #exists #many