Paradoxical Principles – When a Seeming Untruth Is Actually Profound Truth
How Reason Alone Is Rarely Enough to Carry Us
" The opposite of a correct statement is, necessarily, an incorrect statement. But, the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
- Bohr
I was not always a thinking man, at least not at the level you see today. In the halcyon days of my youth, I was but a humble music-business major. Chord, verse, and refrain were my philosophies, but I was not so open to music that I had become closed to the rest of the world.
I always had a appetite for knowledge of any kind.
In college, I took a class on the Philosophy of Science. As a music-business major, I was not smart enough to comprehend the reading, but I was good on my feet and could argue. Some are smart – the rest of us just show our foolishness with our tongue. But there, I learned a little about truth.
The 1922 Nobel Prize winner in physics, and philosopher, Niels Bohr, studied at the intersection of atomic structures and quantum theory. He broke away from classical physics to find truths of physics intersecting at atomic and subatomic levels; he understood the laws of physics didn’t always apply.
The best sentences I could find for you to steal (but, please credit).
“Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.”
John Milton
“Because God’s nature is infinite, everything that flows out of it is infinite also.”
A.W. Tozer
“Infinite-minded leaders understand that ‘best’ is not a permanent state. Instead, they strive to be ‘better.’ ‘Better’ suggests a journey of constant improvement and makes us feel like we are being invited to contribute our talents and energies to make progress in that journey. ‘Better,’ in the Infinite Game, is better than ‘best.’”
Simon Sinek
“Another key to fielding a great team is pairing visionaries, who can generate ideas, with operating managers, who can execute them. Visions without execution are hallucinations.”
Walter Isaacson
“Newspeak, which sees the world in terms of power and struggle, encourages the view that all associations not controlled by the righteous leaders are a danger to the state.”
Roger Scruton
“People don’t buy the best products; they buy the products they can understand the fastest.”
Donald Miller
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars.”
Edward Frenkel
“If we want our customers’ ears to perk up when we talk about our products and services, we should position those products and services as weapons they can use to defeat a villain. And the villain should be dastardly.”
Donald Miller
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”