“Ah, it is impossible." "No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!” — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
“The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.” — Stephen Fischer Copy Share Image
The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring. — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“First stage is knowing the truth, second is not knowing the truth, third is realizing the paradox.” — John K. Brown Copy Share Image
Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent. — Ray Metzker Copy Share Image
We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
The main advantage of blockchain technology is supposed to be that it's more secure, but new technologies are generally hard for people… — Vitalik Buterin Copy Share Image
Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation… — John Elkann Copy Share Image
“Embrace paradox. Look for patterns. Beethoven holds the key but doesn't know it yet. Hiding inside your Shangri-La you might find the… — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“Paradox is not suited to burials, nor to weddings or births, in fact. Sinister — or grotesque — events require commonplaces; the… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“A heartbreaking paradox: if only I can finish my work so that it will live. Yet if it is finished, completed ,… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes that makes the internet such a suggestive place is that, on the one hand, we perceive it as… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
“This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets man apart, the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“Here's the paradox. We can fully embrace God's love only when we recognize how completely unworthy of it we are.” — Ann Tatlock Copy Share Image
To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization. — Adrienne Clarkson Copy Share Image
Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . . — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake… — William Watson Purkey Copy Share Image
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Diepzinnigheid die niet gebakerd ligt in paradoxale oppervlakkigheid is natuurlijk een gruwel.” — Jan Wolkers Copy Share Image
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise… — David Brin Copy Share Image
This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans. — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect. — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
