#paradox

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III) ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#acting

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#connection #differentiate #educators #learning #many

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#doomed #greatest #life #make #paradox

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. ↗

— George Will

#because #constitute #elite #fascinate #good

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#aspects #beings #complementary #consciousness #describes

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 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

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

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization. ↗

— Adrienne Clarkson

#civilization #complex #does #fragmented #genius

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard. ↗

— Edward Norton

#because #characters #contradictory #easily #fun