The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.” — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I Have Found The Paradox If You Love Till It Hurts There Can Be No More Hurt Only More Love — Ashley Rosales 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
The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
“All the jokes about men sitting down on their hats are really theological jokes; they are concerned with the Dual Nature of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“If collapse is anything, it is a planetary immersion in the maelstrom of paradox. Unless we understand and honor paradox, we will… — Carolyn Baker Copy Share Image
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
It's an unbelievable, absurd paradox that we have to put one step in front of the other every day without knowing which… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
I'm aware that I'm kind of a paradox, and at times a bit ill-suited to my profession. But there's something that brings… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
“He came face-to-face with the rude paradox fame had dealt him: The secret of his extraordinary art had been his ability to… — C. R. Strahan Copy Share Image
When you're in a room with twenty people who've all got the True Theory of the universe, it's difficult to know what… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor.… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“Achieving operational excellence in categories above and around software is exponentially more difficult to achieve than in software alone. But the rewards… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“fifty-six, his hour had come round. He was a paradox and would always remain one, a great tangle of calculated mannerisms and… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Welcome my new paranoia, if you are not my reality, so where the hell is the fucking reality!?!?! To be or not… — Fereidoon Yazdi Copy Share Image
Fashion is made up of paradoxes. There was a key moment in fashion. When the Japanese first arrived - Comme des Garçons,… — Ines de La Fressange Copy Share Image
“Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.” — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“As a rule, I believe people shouldn't follow rules; rules should follow people.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Love, the phenomenal act of canceling self in favor of the very same self.” — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“maybe love itself is a paradox, a figment of our collective imaginations!” — Suzette Francis Copy Share Image
But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is a strange paradox: Humans drown in the water, fish drown in the land. — Javad Alizadeh Copy Share Image
“The only way to be completely self-consistent is to be constantly uttering paradoxes.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle. — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. — John Grierson Copy Share Image
