#paradox

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#freedom

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#prejudice #education

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone. ↗

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

#paradox #privacy #life

The man lying on the sofa seemed friendly. But how friendly could he really be if he was a liar?
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— Jarod Kintz

#friendship #liar #lying #man #paradox

Ah Life, Thou art a false truth! ↗

— Raheel Farooq

#paradox #truth #wisdom #art

He came face-to-face with the rude paradox fame had dealt him: The secret of his extraordinary art had been his ability to observe human interaction anonymously, thereby gaining insight into the emotions on display in ordinary life--it was his ability to become a fly-on-the-wall that made him famous, and fame had destroyed his ability to become a fly-on-the-wall. ↗

— C.R. Strahan

#fame #paradox #art

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

— Wayne Dyer

#doomed #greatest #life #make #paradox

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. ↗

— Earl Warren

#failure #found #imperatives #internationalism #most