Lie/paradoxes

Famous quotes containing the words lie and/or paradoxes:

    “No head knows where its rest is
    Or may lie down with reason
    When war’s usurping claws
    Shall take heart escheat....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely that which all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)