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paradoxical
«In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.»
Author: Jonathon Miller
| About:
Atheism
| Keywords:
atheists, awful, paradoxical, practitioner, practitioners, seriously, strange, tend
«We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
chief, Chiefs, education, Education i, faced, fact, freedom, freedom of thought, intelligence, Obstacles, paradoxical, The Chief
«The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
paradoxical, situation, tragic, weakest
«The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Children,
Mothers,
Relationships
| Keywords:
independent, intense, in a sense, paradoxical, The Mother, tragic
«It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
| About:
Education,
Learning,
Parents,
Play,
Time
| Keywords:
connection, differentiate, differentiated, differentiates, educators, paradoxical, parents, seeing, vital
«It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Scientists
| Keywords:
attainment, effected, extent, paradoxical, scientific, the help, to a great extent
«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.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
end point, paradoxical, philosophy, point, Point of, stating, the point, to seem