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title: "Top Paradox Quotations"
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> [The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-paradox-is-really-the-pathos-of-intellectual-life-and-just-as/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/it-is-in-the-translation-that-the-innocence-lost-after-the-first/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dag-hammarskj-ld/acts-of-violence-whether-on-a-large-or-a-small-scale-the-bitter/)

[Dag Hammarskjold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dag-hammarskj-ld/)

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> [You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ugo-mochi/you-cannot-do-silhouettes-in-fantasy-ah-no-you-must-be-faithful-it-is/)

[Ugo Mochi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ugo-mochi/)

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> [We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-blavatsky/we-live-in-an-age-of-prejudice-dissimulation-and-paradox-wherein-like/)

[H. P. Blavatsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-blavatsky/)

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> [“Embrace paradox. Look for patterns. Beethoven holds the key but doesn't know it yet. Hiding inside your Shangri-La you might find the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-frost/embrace-paradox-look-for-patterns-beethoven-holds-the-key-but-doesn-t/)

[Mark Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-frost/)

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> [3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/3-is-prime-5-is-prime-7-is-prime-9-is-a-paradox-as-is-a-paradox-why/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-kaplan/we-are-caught-up-in-a-paradox-one-which-might-be-called-the-paradox/)

[Abraham Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-kaplan/)

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> [Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-christian-von-baeyer/paradox-is-the-sharpest-scalpel-in-the-satchel-of-science-nothing/)

[Hans Christian von Baeyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-christian-von-baeyer/)

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> [The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/earl-nightingale/the-paradox-is-that-exactly-the-reverse-is-true-everything-that-s/)

[Earl Nightingale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/earl-nightingale/)

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> [Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-cassel/yes-the-way-people-behave-the-paradoxes-the-contradictions-all-these/)

[Vincent Cassel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-cassel/)

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> [The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-balogh/the-people-we-love-are-usually-stronger-than-we-give-them-credit-for/)

[Mary Balogh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-balogh/)

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> [“Human freedom brings with it the burden of choice and of its consequences. As humankind is akin to claim for its own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/human-freedom-brings-with-it-the-burden-of-choice-and-of-its/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

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> [“The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-ford/the-modern-west-has-been-deeply-split-about-freedom-and/)

[David F. Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-f-ford/)

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> [If we could travel into the past, it's mind-boggling what would be possible. For one thing, history would become an experimental science,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/if-we-could-travel-into-the-past-it-s-mind-boggling-what-would-be/)

[Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/)

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> [I think one of the biggest sleepers that people are going to be able to dig into later is 'Fermi Paradox,' it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-shadows/i-think-one-of-the-biggest-sleepers-that-people-are-going-to-be-able/)

[M. Shadows](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-shadows/)

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> [Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-elkann/many-things-are-linked-to-being-able-to-live-with-uncertainty-with/)

[John Elkann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-elkann/)

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> [The main advantage of blockchain technology is supposed to be that it's more secure, but new technologies are generally hard for people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vitalik-buterin/the-main-advantage-of-blockchain-technology-is-supposed-to-be-that-it/)

[Vitalik Buterin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vitalik-buterin/)

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> [“Paradox is not suited to burials, nor to weddings or births, in fact. Sinister — or grotesque — events require commonplaces; the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/paradox-is-not-suited-to-burials-nor-to-weddings-or-births-in-fact/)

[Emil M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-m-cioran/)

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> [“If you think about it long enough, you see that the paradox is actually pointing you to the idea that we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-munson/if-you-think-about-it-long-enough-you-see-that-the-paradox-is/)

[Sam Munson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-munson/)

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> [“The profound paradox is that the great man became more confident in his approach to others, including the man of his own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elton-trueblood/the-profound-paradox-is-that-the-great-man-became-more-confident-in/)

[Elton Trueblood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elton-trueblood/)

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> [“A mermaid is not frightened by her own duality. She is a walking contradiction of piety and lust, sobriety and ecstasy, brilliance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margot-datz/a-mermaid-is-not-frightened-by-her-own-duality-she-is-a-walking/)

[Margot Datz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margot-datz/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/courtney-milan/it-s-a-paradox-if-i-m-not-strong-enough-to-say-no-to-my-dad-i-m/)

[Courtney Milan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/courtney-milan/)

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> [It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-caleb-colton/it-is-not-so-difficult-a-task-to-plant-new-truths-as-to-root-out-old/)

[Charles Caleb Colton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-caleb-colton/)

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> [We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-sparks/we-sit-silently-and-watch-the-world-around-us-this-has-taken-us-a/)

[Nicholas Sparks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-sparks/)

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> [Kant is not saying - about freedom or any other subject - anything of the form: "Not-p but we must assume that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-w-wood/kant-is-not-saying-about-freedom-or-any-other-subject-anything-of-the/)

[Allen W. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-w-wood/)

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> [We live in a polarized world of contrived dualisms, dichotomies and paradoxes: light vs. dark and good vs. evil. We as Mexic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ana-castillo/we-live-in-a-polarized-world-of-contrived-dualisms-dichotomies-and/)

[Ana Castillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ana-castillo/)

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> [“Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-helprin/music-was-a-chain-forged-half-of-silences-and-half-of-sound-love-was/)

[Mark Helprin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-helprin/)

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> [A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/a-line-is-not-made-up-of-points-in-the-same-way-time-is-not-made-up/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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> [It's such a paradox for them to say, "Oh, my God, I've thrown away my life," and continue to do that for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patch-adams/it-s-such-a-paradox-for-them-to-say-oh-my-god-i-ve-thrown-away-my/)

[Patch Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patch-adams/)

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> [“For silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-sparks/for-silence-is-pure-silence-is-holy-it-draws-people-together-because/)

[Nicholas Sparks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-sparks/)

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> [I do not think it is logical to try and outsmart the smartest people. Instead, my weapons are irony and paradox. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-jackman/i-do-not-think-it-is-logical-to-try-and-outsmart-the-smartest-people/)

[Hugh Jackman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-jackman/)

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> [The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-paradox-of-anti-semitism-is-that-it-is-invariably-up-to-the-jews/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Happiness consists in finding out precisely what the "one thing necessary" may be, in our lives, and in gladly relinquishing all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/happiness-consists-in-finding-out-precisely-what-the-one-thing/)

[Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/)

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> [This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chrystia-freeland/this-is-the-21st-century-paradox-even-as-political-democracy-has/)

[Chrystia Freeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chrystia-freeland/)

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> [“Sometimes things seem out of our hands. They are, mostly. The great paradox is that this thing is totally out of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/art-hochberg/sometimes-things-seem-out-of-our-hands-they-are-mostly-the-great/)

[Art Hochberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/art-hochberg/)

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> [Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/hume-s-paradox-does-hold-power-is-in-the-hands-of-the-governed-if/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [“The incompetent always present thmeselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small minded as patriots,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-ruiz-zafon/the-incompetent-always-present-thmeselves-as-experts-the-cruel-as/)

[Carlos Ruiz Zafón](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/)

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> [The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-surowiecki/the-problem-is-that-groups-are-only-smart-when-the-people-in-them-are/)

[James Surowiecki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-surowiecki/)

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> [“If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-harris/if-someone-doesn-t-value-evidence-what-evidence-are-you-going-to-2/)

[Sam Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-harris/)

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                        "text": "3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime,  9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself.",
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                        "text": "The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country. All these priceless possessions are free. But the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time. A good man can be completely wiped out and make another fortune. He can do that several times. Even if our home burns down, we can rebuild it. But the things we got for nothing, we can never replace.",
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                        "text": "The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than see the loved one suffer. But sometimes pain is better than emptiness. I have been so empty Kit. All my life. So full of emptiness. That is strange paradox is nit not - full of emptiness?",
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                        "text": "“The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many forms - human rights, sexual freedom, political liberty, freedom to choose in many spheres. On the other hand, many of its most intelligent members have not believed that people are free at all, and have devoted great efforts to show that really we are the product of our genes, our unconscious drives, our education, economic pressures, or other forms of conditioning.”",
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