Most of man's problems in the modern world arise from the constant and unavoidable exposure to the stimuli of urban and industrial civilization, the varied aspects of environmental pollution, the physiological disturbances associated with sudden changes in ways of life, the estrangement from the conditions and natural cycles under which human evolution took place, the emotional trauma and the paradoxical solitude in congested cities, the monotony, boredom and compulsory leisure
|
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
|
Its paradoxical that the idea of living long appeals to everyone but no one wants to get old.
|
So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good so far as we do evil or good, we are human and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing at least we exist.
|
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
|
Power is paradoxical.
|
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
|
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought
|
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it
|
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
|
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
|