--- title: "8 Ultimate Paradox Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 8 Ultimate Paradox quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Ultimate Paradox sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a0/jeremy-limn-301_life_life-is-the-ultimate-paradox-461542_461542.jpg" --- > [''Life is the ultimate paradox.''](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-limn/life-is-the-ultimate-paradox/) [Jeremy Limn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-limn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a0/jeremy-limn-301_life_life-is-the-ultimate-paradox-461542_461542.jpg) > [“Unless you admit it to yourself, that you don’t know what is going on, will you experience what is going on. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/art-hochberg/unless-you-admit-it-to-yourself-that-you-don-t-know-what-is-going-on/) [Art Hochberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/art-hochberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49f/art-hochberg-1133_life_unless-you-admit-it-to-yourself-that-you_640068.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) > [Love is a gift, a miracle, a mystery. You are led to its threshold by your affinities, by your inclinations, and by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenda-green/love-is-a-gift-a-miracle-a-mystery-you-are-led-to-its-threshold-by/) [Glenda Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenda-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38c/glenda-green-45046_affinity_love-is-a-gift-a-miracle-a-mystery-you-a_1112732.png) > [''The answer to life is the ultimate paradox.''](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-limn/the-answer-to-life-is-the-ultimate-paradox/) [Jeremy Limn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-limn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/022/jeremy-limn-301_answer-to-life_the-answer-to-life-is-the-ultimate-parad_1556336.jpg) > [This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/this-then-is-the-ultimate-paradox-of-thought-to-want-to-discover/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/942/anonymous-1_paradox_this-then-is-the-ultimate-paradox-of-tho_1558284.jpg) > [The existence of God is the ultimate paradox.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kedar-joshi/the-existence-of-god-is-the-ultimate-paradox/) [Kedar Joshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kedar-joshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38f/kedar-joshi-2717_existence_the-existence-of-god-is-the-ultimate-par_2531902.jpg) > [Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/sadly-the-things-that-we-have-set-out-as-being-worth-striving-for-are/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58a/desmond-tutu-442_finite_sadly-the-things-that-we-have-set-out-as_2858206.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ultimate-paradox/#itemlist", "name": "Ultimate Paradox Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "''Life is the ultimate paradox.''", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jeremy Limn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-limn/life-is-the-ultimate-paradox/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a0/jeremy-limn-301_life_life-is-the-ultimate-paradox-461542_461542.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a0/jeremy-limn-301_life_life-is-the-ultimate-paradox-461542_461542.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a0/jeremy-limn-301_life_life-is-the-ultimate-paradox-461542_461542.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“''Life is the ultimate paradox.''” — Jeremy Limn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Unless you admit it to yourself, that you don’t know what is going on, will you experience what is going on. 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