Power is paradoxical.

He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

“In fact, the most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star…

— John Bradshaw

I can't agree that what we're seeing is a matter of the American bourgeoisie confronting workers everywhere. It's more like the international plutocracy eliminating…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in…

— Ernst Haas

I have no expertise of other religious traditions so I'm not going to opine on them, but in Islam the more you know about…

— Haroon Moghul

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

— Robin G. Collingwood

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which…

— Max Beckmann

My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the…

— Jon Ronson

Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.

— C. A. Bartol

Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually…

— David Cannadine

You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems…

— James Gleick

“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

The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities,…

— Thomas Malthus

There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that…

— Benjamin Graham

A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus…

— Ken Wilber