The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world. — Susan Griffin 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
“I am usually at my most brutally forthright when making shit up. That's the paradox of me.” — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.” — Lionel Suggs 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
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It's such a paradox for them to say, "Oh, my God, I've thrown away my life," and continue to do that for… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
“For silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
We live in a polarized world of contrived dualisms, dichotomies and paradoxes: light vs. dark and good vs. evil. We as Mexic… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“It’s a paradox. If I’m not strong enough to say no to my dad, I’m surely not strong enough to run the… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“If you think about it long enough, you see that the paradox is actually pointing you to the idea that we have… — Sam Munson Copy Share Image
“Russell’s paradox threatened to deal a far more serious blow to set theory than earlier ideological objections. The problem was this: consider… — Ananyo Bhattacharya Copy Share Image
Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is a strange duality in the human which makes for an ethical paradox. We have definitions of good qualities and of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Certainly I wouldn't be writing this book, on this subject, if living with freedom were easy. The paradox seems to be, as… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The paradox—and a fearful paradox it is—is that the American Negro can have no future anywhere, on any continent, as long as… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“True belonging is not something you negotiate externally, it’s what you carry in your heart. It’s finding the sacredness in being a… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne) — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.” — David Shenk Copy Share Image
“Diepzinnigheid die niet gebakerd ligt in paradoxale oppervlakkigheid is natuurlijk een gruwel.” — Jan Wolkers Copy Share Image
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. — Frank Herbert 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
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
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. — Erich Fromm 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
The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. — Ram Dass 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
“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
