#dox

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#different #different thing #fun #inside #normality

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#being a man #forgive #i #make #man

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#chief #education #faced #fact #freedom

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#end #paradoxical #philosophy #point #seem

Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#eyes #fixed #jews #orthodox #palestine

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#decade #greed #intriguing #paradox

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#good #great #irony #paradox #same

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean. ↗