“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
:)So Micayla didn't quite understand the meaning of the word paradox, so like most things I struggle to understand or make sense… — Micayla Ludick Basson 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 of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The… — Margaret M. Lock Copy Share Image
I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an… — David Richo Copy Share Image
The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
“And while we may never be able to wrap our minds around the thing itself, it is by the power of a… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Every dimension of knowledge is an exponentially cyclical paradox of maturation. — Colby Tatem Copy Share Image
What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image