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• Tal vez no sea descabellado concluir que una democracia pura y perfecta es algo inalcanzable para el hombre, constituido como está por elementos opuestos de vicio y virtud, y siempre influido principalmente por el principio predominante del interés propio. Puede, en efecto, afirmarse con seguridad que nunca existió ese gobierno llamado república, que no fuera gobernado en última instancia por una sola voluntad, y, por lo tanto, (por atrevida que pueda parecer la paradoja) virtual y sustancialmente una monarquía.

  Alexander Fraser Tytler

  Hombres, Ser, Perfecto

  " Historia Universal: From the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. I" de Alexander Fraser Tytler, Petridge and Company, (p. 216), 1854.

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

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Ironic, Literature, Irony

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, (p. 151), 1968.

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• It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

  John Ruskin

  Important, Noble, Literature

  John Ruskin, Frederick William Roe (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Men, Forgiving, Ordinary

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• The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

  Ralph Peters

  Relationship, Powerful, Technology

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• Nuestra sociedad occidental muestra sus músculos tecnológicos de forma cada vez más amenazadora, pero la experiencia del miedo, la ansiedad e incluso la desesperación ha aumentado en igual proporción. De hecho, la paradoja es que los poderosos gigantes se sienten tan impotentes como un recién nacido.

  Henri Nouwen

  Poder, Ansiedad, Desesperación

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• Esa es la gran paradoja de vivir en esta tierra, que en medio de un gran dolor puedes tener también una gran alegría. Si no tuviéramos esas cosas estaríamos entumecidos.

  Kathy Mattea

  Dolor, Alegría, Tierra

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• When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence in the trials and tribulations of neitherness was actually an apprenticeship for teaching her children new cutting edges of consciousness and social change. In stunning paradox, our neitherness is our talisman, our fairie wand, our gift we bring to the hetero world to....transform their pain into healings; ...transform their tears to laughter: ...transform their hand-me-downs to visions of loveliness.

  Harry Hay

  Mother, Pain, Laughter

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• Los fallos de perspectiva en la toma de decisiones pueden deberse a aspectos de la paradoja de la utilidad social, pero más a menudo resultan de simples errores causados por una reflexión inadecuada.

  Herman Kahn

  Mistake, Simple, Perspective

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.208, Lexington Books

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• ¿Cuáles son las fuentes de la poesía? El amor y la muerte y la paradoja del amor y la muerte. Desde el principio, toda la poesía gira en torno a Eros y Thanatos. Esos son los únicos temas. Y cómo Eros y Tánatos se entrelazan.

  Erica Jong

  Love And Death, Love Poetry, Source

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• Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being degenerate into deathly specters of themselves. Solitude split off from community is no longer a rich and fulfilling experience of inwardness; now it becomes loneliness, a terrible isolation. Community split off from solitude is no longer a nurturing network of relationships; now it becomes a crowd, an alienating buzz of too many people and too much noise.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Loneliness, Opposites, People

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.68, John Wiley & Sons

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• Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Mean, Literature, Morality

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• It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

  Gail Sheehy

  Stars, Prime, Reach Out

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• The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by talking like fools and ended by making their hearers wise.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Wise, Teaching, Talking

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.22, Tuttle Publishing

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• A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at all is through freedom.

  Clark Moustakas

  Way, Existential, Boundaries

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• Cuando el matemático dice que tal o cual proposición es cierta para una cosa, puede ser interesante y seguramente seguro. Pero cuando intenta extender su proposición a todo, aunque es mucho más interesante, también es mucho más peligroso. En la transición de lo uno a lo todo, de lo específico a lo general, la matemática ha hecho sus mayores progresos y ha sufrido sus más graves reveses, de los cuales las paradojas lógicas constituyen la parte más importante. Para que las matemáticas avancen con seguridad y confianza, primero deben poner en orden sus asuntos internos.

  Edward Kasner

  Inicio, Orden, Interesante

  "Matemáticas e imaginación".

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• The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of difficulties and paradoxes which instructors now invite us to solve in a few minutes.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Block, Math, Emotional

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• We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.

  Abraham Kaplan

  Needs, Might, Caught

  Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.53, Transaction Publishers

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• I threw up again that night, half-afraid that my eyeballs would explode. But it was, by far, more important that I get rid of dinner. Of course, by then, throwing up was the only way I knew how to deal with fear. That paradox would begin to run my life: to know that what you are doing is hurting you, maybe killing you, and to be afraid of that fact--but to cling to the idea that this will save you, it will, in the end, make things okay.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Running, Hurt, Night

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

  George Will

  Political, Mediocrity, Politics

  "Embracing Your Inner Mediocrity: Making Peace with Reality". Book by Vince Stone, 2009.

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• Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is

  Alan Moore

  Men, Asking, Mask

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• There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

  Laurence Sterne

  Hypocrisy, Religion, Christianity

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• There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.

  Jane Smiley

  Country, New York, Museums

  "Lively, daring genius" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2007.

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• Es tan paradójico para ellos decir: "Dios mío, he tirado mi vida por la borda", y seguir haciéndolo durante el último mes de su vida. Les sacudo, les sacudo físicamente, y les digo: "¿Y ahora qué? ¿Y ahora qué?"

  Patch Adams

  Curación, Salud, Dura

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• There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fear, Inspire

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.147

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