This results in a hugely important and seemingly paradoxical thought: freedom is not the absence of necessity, in the form of death.
"The person who achieves most can also be forgotten most," he says, with the air of a man who has long been troubled by that paradoxical thought.
The idea raises the paradoxical thought that military hardware from America's two wars is being transferred to domestic police under the Pentagon's 1033 programme in order to deal with the threat of US veterans returning from those very same conflicts.
Babenzian's paradoxical thinking almost seems to be channeling similar thoughts that fueled the style-cum-ideology "normcore".
A large body of literature suggests that deliberately attempting to avoid or suppress unwanted thoughts has paradoxical consequences, frequently leading to an increase in the unwanted thought (e.g., Wenzlaff and Wegner 2000).
But the contradictions in the relic cult familiarised even the simplest pilgrim with the essentially paradoxical nature of religious thought.
Jazz was becoming wise, strange and bitter, a dream world full of wide-open space or density, meta-thoughts and paradoxical impulses.
John Gray comments that Oakeshott's conservative thought is paradoxical in that he "is in no sense an anti-modernist: If anything, he is an uncompromising modernist, perhaps even a postmodernist" (Gray 2007, Other Internet Resources).
What a paradoxical answer, I thought.
This emphasis on acceptance initially emerged from the influential thought suppression literature, which demonstrates the sometimes paradoxical effects of attempts at thought control.
Klein died in 2009 of complications from Alzheimer's, but his financial farsightedness and patience -- paradoxical in a man whose thoughts sped so fast they made an ADD sufferer seem like a Zen Master -- laid the groundwork for ABKCO Music & Records, with Allen's son Jody at the helm, to thrive for decades to come.
