Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

Or--to quote another paradoxical gem of my dad's: sometimes you have to lose to win.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

[...] cela m'excite de penser à tout ce qui fuit dans la vie au nom de la vie.

I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it's not paradoxical it's not true!

Confusion is not a bad thing. It's not doubt that makes a man mad. It's certainty.

This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be worth buying or reading.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

a 'possibility' is indeterminate enough to determine how possible it is used to be .

Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne)

There is more clarity in paradoxical truths, than there is in a single act of bold stupidity.

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.