A few paradoxes are all very well; they are stimulating and gently provocative.
The only two kinds of talker that I find tiresome are the talker of paradoxes and the egotist.
I believe that it has not dawned on the most well-intentioned of my readers that here is the outcome of a sane philosophic sensibility, and not a medley of a hundred outworn paradoxes and heterodoxes.
He loves paradoxes because life is full of contradictions, and his paradoxes are often elucidations and conciliations of conflicting ideas, never the cheap and facile paradoxes of a Chesterton.
At Oxford appeared that predilection for paradoxes and over-curious speculations, which formed afterwards the marking feature of his literary character.
In historical research our adventurer startled the world by maintaining paradoxes which attacked the opinions, or changed the characters, established for centuries.
Nothing was to be seen in the state in which others had viewed it; the hardiest paradoxes served his purpose best, and this licentious principle produced unlooked-for discoveries.
After looking into books of paradoxes for more than thirty years, and holding conversation with many persons who have written them, and many who might have done so, there is one point on which my mind is fully made up.
His work, The Characters of a believing Christian, in Paradoxes and seeming contradictions, appeared in 1645.
More than a century ago the Paradoxes were published as a penny tract; and, again, at the same price, in the Penny Sunday Reader, vol.
The paradoxesof what is called chance, or hazard, might themselves make a small volume.
The queer paradoxes of that tract leave us in doubt as to everything but this, that the church(man) is not bound to give his whole counsel in all things, and not bound to say what the things are in which he does not give it.
Paradoxes have been cut out by the binder, who has left the backs of the leaves.
The title is "The Character of a believing Christian, set forth in paradoxes and seeming contradictions.
In spite of this, the Paradoxeswere introduced into Bacon's works in 1730, where they have remained.
This rough process may serve, with sufficient certainty, to show that the proportion of paradoxes to books of sober demonstration is on the increase; and probably, quite as much as the proportion of heterodoxes to books of orthodox adherence.
It would be a fearful rate of increase which would make the number of paradoxes since 1825 equal to the whole number before that date.
It is one of the paradoxes of comedy, indeed, that, even when we like the hero of it, we also like to see him hurt and humiliated.
This is perhaps the greatest of all our paradoxes and contradictions.
Sometimes a truth may be reached by such a short-cut, but such paradoxesare occasionally no better than chartered errors.
But he had already discovered the abundant element of paradox in life; and when he analysed the two sets of paradoxes he found them to be precisely the same.
Languages of the brain: Experimental paradoxes and principles in neuro- psychology.
My unfortunate paradoxeshad entirely dried up that source of comfort.
I therefore drest up three paradoxes with some ingenuity.
To the imaginative the truisms are all paradoxes, since they were paradoxes in the Stone Age; to them the ordinary copy-book blazes with blasphemy.
Everything came to him in the excitement of talk, epigrams, paradoxes and stories; and when people of great position or title were about him he generally managed to surpass himself: all social distinctions appealed to him intensely.
Early in our friendship I was fain to see that the love of the uncommon, his paradoxes and epigrams were natural to him, sprang immediately from his taste and temperament.
After talking for months at this and that lunch and dinner he had amassed a store of epigrams and humorous paradoxes which he could embody in a paper for "The Fortnightly Review" or "The Nineteenth Century".
In Browning's paradoxes we are often led on and involved in an emotion over some situation which does not honestly call for the emotion.
But his love for paradoxes carried him beyond the confines of logic.
To this ingenious juggler of paradoxes this was by no means a dilemma.
His books teem with daring assertions, indemonstrable conjectures, theories regarding nations with whose languages he was unfamiliar, amateurish paradoxes like that which places Werner's Luther in the forefront of German drama.
But the sixteenth century furnishes not a few paradoxes equally remarkable.
Now, on the other hand, what are the chief objections which Reconcile the infidel to his enormous burden of paradoxes, and which appear to the Christian far less invincible than the paradoxes themselves?
We have enumerated some of the paradoxes which infidelity is required to believe; and the old-fashioned, open, intelligible infidelity of the last century accepted them, and rejected Christianity accordingly.
On the other hand, to him who accepts Christianity, none of these paradoxes present themselves.
A hint has been already given that the paradoxes of Zeno admitted of a higher application.
Still, Parmenides does not deny to Socrates the credit of having gone beyond them in seeking to apply the paradoxes of Zeno to ideas; and this is the application which he himself makes of them in the latter part of the dialogue.
Here we have, first of all, an unmistakable attack made by the youthful Socrates on the paradoxes of Zeno.
If it is a paradox to ask for a human politics before we understand humanity or politics, it is what Mr. Chesterton describes as one of those paradoxes that sit beside the wells of truth.
His doctrine of the "social myth" has seemed to many commentators one of those sillyparadoxes that only a revolutionary syndicalist and Frenchman could have put forward.
This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement--that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it--that the religion of humanity should have had no faith in human beings.
The art of Pirandello is a subtle play of paradoxes and analyses of motives which are second nature to persons called complex, the result of inherited and acquired artificialities.
To get the full effect of these paradoxes and analyses the closest attention of the reader and of the auditor is required, and as a matter of fact Pirandello's comedies read much better than they play.
The thing that the war dislocated most was further tolerance of the paradoxes of the Christian religion, the irreconcilability between preached and practised Christianity.
It would be equally unprofitable to search for any consistent vein of irony in him, or any deep intuition into the paradoxes of life.
It is one of the strangest paradoxes to find a poet like Catullus, endowed with the purest sense of beauty, and yet capable of turning all his vigorous force of expression to the vilest uses.
But he wrote his light-headed paradoxes in so flowing a copy-book hand that everyone supposed they must be copy-book sentiments.
One tenth of his paradoxes would have made the fortune of a modern young man with gloves of an art yellow.
The following lines of suppressed anger and large-minded charity emanated from his pen: "A great deal has been heard about the paradoxes of Oscar Wilde upon Art, Beauty, Conscience and Life!
Paradoxes they were, it is true, and we know that some laid themselves open to the charge of exaggeration, and vaulted over the threshold of the Forbidden.
Into the mental landscape, these paradoxes introduce that sudden change of perspective, which forces the mind to rise or to descend, and thus causes us to discover other horizons.
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