Paradoxes

Examples

• His doctrine of the social myth has seemed to many commentators one of those silly paradoxes that only a revolutionary syndicalist and Frenchman could have put forward. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• From this dependence of the act of thinking upon a sense of sharing in the consequences of what goes on, flows one of the chief paradoxes of thought. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• My unfortunate paradoxes had entirely dried up that source of comfort. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• 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. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• 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. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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