There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes…

. . . in one sense a foundation is a security blanket: If you meticulously follow the rules laid down, no paradoxes or contradictions…

— Saunders Mac Lane

The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible.

— William Poundstone

“Force is often used to enforce peace and an A bomb did bring world war 2 to a shuddering halt. The funniest people sometimes…

— Nidhie Sharma

It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low…

— William O'Neil

Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the…

— Douglas A. Blackmon

“The ancient sages never put their teachings in systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by…

— Anonymous

I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to…

— Horace Walpole

The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between…

— Karl Jaspers

“The story ‘Good Old Neon’ invokes two conundrums from mathematical logic, the Berry and Russell paradoxes, to describe a psychological double bind that the…

— James Ryerson

I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

— Brian May

When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe.…

— Edward Kasner

There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable way of…

— Niels Henrik Abel

The next day, when I was sober, I thought again about the three of us, and about time's many paradoxes. For instance: that when…

— Julian Barnes

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“And while we may never be able to wrap our minds around the thing itself, it is by the power of a story that…

— Casey Fisher