Since the beginning of time tricksters (the mythological origin of all clowns ) have embraced life's paradoxes, creating coherence through confusion adding disorder to the world in order to expose its lies and speak the truth .
CIRCA aims to make clowning dangerous again, to bring it back to the street, restore its disobedience and give it back the social function it once had: its ability to disrupt, critique and heal society. Since the beginning of time tricksters (the mythological origin of all clowns) have embraced life's paradoxes , creating coherence through confusion adding disorder to the world in order to expose its lies and speak the truth .
J'aime mieux e" tre homme a' paradoxes qu'homme a' pre juge s. I would rather be a man of paradoxes than of prejudices.
It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.
andrew fergusonMan is in fact nailed down — like Christ on the Cross — to a grid of paradoxes . . . he balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.
václav havelWe have to be reminded over and over again that Nature is full of paradoxes.
henry fairfield osbornThe assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.
william poundstoneTwo paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
Edward Teller"Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation and a situation."
john elkannWell, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.
Galileo GalileiA society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such as ours, produces many paradoxes. But perhaps the most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Earl WarrenThe concept of the infinitely small is involved in the relation of points to a line or the relation of the discrete to the continuous , and Zeno's paradoxes may have caused the Greeks to shy away from this subject.
The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a subjective side won't get us very far.
The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting the reality into an objective side won’t get us very far.
The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur what species of impossibilities are possible.
william poundstoneThe assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.
william poundstoneThese are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' the alehouse.
william shakespeareThe followers of Heraclitus insisted the Immortal Principle was change and motion. But Parmenides ' disciple, Zeno, proved through a series of paradoxes that any perception of motion and change is illusory. Reality had to be motionless.
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history , so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life .
PARADOX: A statement that reduces the matter at hand to complete obscurity while clarifying it. ... paradoxes are sensitive and can be routed by sneering.
paradoxes explain everything. Since they do, they cannot be explained.
paradoxes specific to the work are, in a sense, the counterpart of the contradictions of the perceivable world .