Tag: paradox
7 quotes
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If the brain were so simple that we could understand it, then we couldn’t understand it.
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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
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Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.
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The most selfish act of all is kindness, because its payback is so much greater than the investment.
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The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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Here lies the paradox of solitude. Look long and hard enough at yourself in isolation and suddenly you will see the rest of humanity staring back. Sustained aloneness brings you to a tipping point where the pendulum of life returns you to others.
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But there is a second and deeper logic to life, gift logic, which guides us as we form important relationships, serve those around us, and cultivate our full humanity. This is a logic of contribution, not acquisition; surrender, not domination.…