The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it's not paradoxical it's not true!” — C.B. Murphy Copy Share Image
“Or--to quote another paradoxical gem of my dad's: sometimes you have to lose to win.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation? — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“The absence of the latter means nothing, though its presence may mean everything” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
True learning always creates a paradox of promoting disagreement in order to create a consensus. — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
“As a citizen, of course. As a parent, of course. But as an artist, that's where the paradox is - your responsibility… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“I was a happy melancholy, though — a contradiction in terms, to be sure, but every human understands this paradox, because they… — Jamie S. Rich Copy Share Image
The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
The deep paradox uncovered by AI research: the only way to deal efficiently with very complex problems is to move away from… — Daniel Crevier Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
The frustrating paradox is that coaching goalkeeping actually requires more resources than outfield positions. Unlike David Beckham and Wayne Rooney, who can… — David James 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
“Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic]. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the… — David Hyde Pierce Copy Share Image
“The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing.” — Laren Grey Umphlett Copy Share Image
“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“All days from the week are typical, that's all… nothing less, nothing more.” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
This is the greatest paradox: the emotions cannot be trusted; yet it is the emotions that tell us the greatest truths. — Don Herold Copy Share Image
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding. — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself. — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life. — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
“The tourist’s paradox: how to find somewhere that’s free of people exactly like us.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
![“Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].” quote by Gregory Bateson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed3/gregory-bateson-7135_ignored_logic-cannot-model-causal-systems-and-pa_2208304.png)
