--- title: "Great Paradox Quotes" description: "Browse 1,142 Paradox quotes by 869 authors. Discover the best Paradox sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/894/rick-perry-1638_all-things_in-the-rush-to-become-all-things-to-all_590027.png" --- > [In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-perry/in-the-rush-to-become-all-things-to-all-people-the-federal-government/) [Rick Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-perry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/894/rick-perry-1638_all-things_in-the-rush-to-become-all-things-to-all_590027.png) > [We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/we-drink-too-much-smoke-too-much-spend-too-recklessly-laugh-too/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af3/anonymous-1_angry_we-drink-too-much-smoke-too-much-spend-t_203255.jpg) > [“Beautiful blueberry nights fill my liver with morning and the nozzle of my heart spews forth an amalgam of blood. The sun…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bohumil-hrabal/beautiful-blueberry-nights-fill-my-liver-with-morning-and-the-nozzle/) [Bohumil Hrabal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bohumil-hrabal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4dc/bohumil-hrabal-15672_beauty_beautiful-blueberry-nights-fill-my-liver_1773479.jpg) > [Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-scott-peck/worship-is-yet-another-paradox-of-the-religious-life-it-is/) [M. Scott Peck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-scott-peck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df3/m-scott-peck-1921_believe_worship-is-yet-another-paradox-of-the-re_1351351.jpg) > [All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-bryant/all-ultimately-intermarried-to-produce-a-race-of-many-strains-which/) [Arthur Bryant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-bryant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fd/arthur-bryant-43600_accounts_all-ultimately-intermarried-to-produce-a_2458854.png) > [“Human hypocrisy: When one judges humanity as a whole, people have the habit of disagreeing, saying that everyone is different - unique.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-suggs/human-hypocrisy-when-one-judges-humanity-as-a-whole-people-have-the/) [Lionel Suggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-suggs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f79/lionel-suggs-1621_end-of-the-day_human-hypocrisy-when-one-judges-humanity_929014.jpg) > [Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/evey-hammond-who-are-you-v-who-who-is-but-the-form-following-the/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/346/alan-moore-583_asking_evey-hammond-who-are-you-v-who-who-is-bu_2371124.jpg) > [Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-wolfe/perhaps-this-is-our-strange-and-haunting-paradox-here-in-america-that/) [Thomas Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-wolfe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf6/thomas-wolfe-4237_america_perhaps-this-is-our-strange-and-haunting_943327.png) > [Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/station-is-the-paradox-of-the-world-of-my-people-the-limitation-of/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ce/anonymous-1_daggers_station-is-the-paradox-of-the-world-of-m_1582679.jpg) > [“Russell’s paradox threatened to deal a far more serious blow to set theory than earlier ideological objections. The problem was this: consider…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananyo-bhattacharya/russell-s-paradox-threatened-to-deal-a-far-more-serious-blow-to-set/) [Ananyo Bhattacharya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananyo-bhattacharya/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afd/ananyo-bhattacharya-129419_end-time_russell-s-paradox-threatened-to-deal-a-f_483929.jpg) > [“There is a strange duality in the human which makes for an ethical paradox. We have definitions of good qualities and of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/there-is-a-strange-duality-in-the-human-which-makes-for-an-ethical/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b4/john-steinbeck-71_character_there-is-a-strange-duality-in-the-human_2402724.jpg) > [If we have dwelled on Godel's work at some length, is it because we see it in the mathematical analogy of what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-watzlawick/if-we-have-dwelled-on-godel-s-work-at-some-length-is-it-because-we/) [Paul Watzlawick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-watzlawick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43f/paul-watzlawick-17394_analogies_if-we-have-dwelled-on-godel-s-work-at-so_968818.jpg) > [The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-o-wilson/the-great-paradox-of-determinism-and-free-will-which-has-held-the/) [E. O. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-o-wilson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c43/e-o-wilson-1348_agents_the-great-paradox-of-determinism-and-fre_629705.jpg) > [“A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-barthes/a-paradox-the-same-century-invented-history-and-photography-but-2/) [Roland Barthes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-barthes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d7/roland-barthes-1062_history_a-paradox-the-same-century-invented-hist_2951287.png) > [“There is a paradox in our pursuit of life. The more we fill our hearts with what the world promises will give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-l-worthington/there-is-a-paradox-in-our-pursuit-of-life-the-more-we-fill-our-hearts/) [Derek L. Worthington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-l-worthington/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d7/derek-l-worthington-70182_life_there-is-a-paradox-in-our-pursuit-of-lif_1362958.jpg) > [There are great jazz educators that I meet all the time. I met a guy named Paul Luchessi who has a high…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-gordon/there-are-great-jazz-educators-that-i-meet-all-the-time-i-met-a-guy/) [Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-gordon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19b/jon-gordon-1655_blown-away_there-are-great-jazz-educators-that-i-me_952270.jpg) > [...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deepak-chopra/once-again-we-face-a-paradox-for-it-appears-that-softening-your-heart/) [Deepak Chopra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deepak-chopra/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78c/deepak-chopra-63_behinds_once-again-we-face-a-paradox-for-it-appe_1295600.jpg) > [“Wyatt avoided the petty gunfights and headed to a saloon and rigged up a bunch of Molotov cocktails. Her firebombs against members…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-j-kincaid-2/wyatt-avoided-the-petty-gunfights-and-headed-to-a-saloon-and-rigged/) [S. J. Kincaid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-j-kincaid-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17e/s-j-kincaid-2-41593_combat_wyatt-avoided-the-petty-gunfights-and-he_2714315.jpg) > [But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked. “Make me”, I replied. “Beg pardon?” “Make me”, I repeated.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-segal/but-what-does-he-do-to-qualify-as-a-sonovabitch-jenny-asked-make-me-i/) [Erich Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-segal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c13/erich-segal-12086_asked_but-what-does-he-do-to-qualify-as-a-sono_953740.jpg) > [Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-caleb-colton/reform-is-a-good-replete-with-paradox-it-is-a-cathartic-which-our/) [Charles Caleb Colton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-caleb-colton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55c/charles-caleb-colton-270_all-time_reform-is-a-good-replete-with-paradox-it_1413290.jpg) > [Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/think-about-the-strangeness-of-today-s-situation-thirty-forty-years/) [Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9b/slavoj-i-ek-1738_accepting_think-about-the-strangeness-of-today-s-s_312880.jpg) > [I threw up again that night, half-afraid that my eyeballs would explode. But it was, by far, more important that I get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/i-threw-up-again-that-night-half-afraid-that-my-eyeballs-would/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/481/marya-hornbacher-2109_afraid_i-threw-up-again-that-night-half-afraid_962198.jpg) ## Top authors on Paradox - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-oscar-wilde-72846.jpg) Oscar Wilde 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/paradox/oscar-wilde/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-soren-kierkegaard-86305.jpg) Soren Kierkegaard 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/paradox/soren-kierkegaard/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-caleb-colton-22176.jpg) Charles Caleb Colton 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/paradox/charles-caleb-colton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jeremy-limn-48923.jpg) Jeremy Limn 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/paradox/jeremy-limn/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-g-k-chesterton-224.jpg) G.K. 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But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic Time; and the Photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony; so that everything, today, prepares our race for this impotence: to be no longer able to conceive duration , affectively or symbolically: the age of the Photograph is also the age of revolutions, contestations, assassinations, explosions, in short, of impatiences, of everything which denies ripening.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Roland Barthes" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-barthes/a-paradox-the-same-century-invented-history-and-photography-but-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d7/roland-barthes-1062_history_a-paradox-the-same-century-invented-hist_2951287.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d7/roland-barthes-1062_history_a-paradox-the-same-century-invented-hist_2951287.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d7/roland-barthes-1062_history_a-paradox-the-same-century-invented-hist_2951287.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. 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Worthington" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-l-worthington/there-is-a-paradox-in-our-pursuit-of-life-the-more-we-fill-our-hearts/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d7/derek-l-worthington-70182_life_there-is-a-paradox-in-our-pursuit-of-lif_1362958.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d7/derek-l-worthington-70182_life_there-is-a-paradox-in-our-pursuit-of-lif_1362958.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d7/derek-l-worthington-70182_life_there-is-a-paradox-in-our-pursuit-of-lif_1362958.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There is a paradox in our pursuit of life. The more we fill our hearts with what the world promises will…” — Derek L. Worthington", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are great jazz educators that I meet all the time. 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