Paradox Quotes

503 Paradox quotes by 397 unique authors

There are still to be found , or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered… — Alexander Hamilton
The most fundamental paradox is that, if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. We… — Ronald Reagan
Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock… — Carl Sandburg
Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality… — Robin Wasserman
Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything is only black… — Vincent Cassel
I was paralyzed with fear. It was unbearable to be among other kids who were just standing around being fine. It was one of the… — Sarah Silverman
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned… — Bryce Dallas Howard
I do my own thing. I'm very much in the paradox of things. I enjoy the little things in life, what's big is small and… — Katerina Graham
I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right. — Brian May
So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time. — David Hyde Pierce
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was… — Joy Page
There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints of government. Such… — Alexander Hamilton
Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same… — Jacques Barzun
Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes . . . he balances between the… — Vaclav Havel
Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration. — Emile M. Cioran
...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from evil. Building a… — Deepak Chopra
What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences… — J. William Fulbright
In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or… — David Richo
In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound. — Robert Thurman
The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the Atlantic slave trade… — David W. Blight
One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right… — Eula Biss
When I moved to the United States [from Asia] in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I was allowed to… — Geena Rocero
The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye. — Shana Alexander
Everybody knows you're going to miss some. It's just the reality and the probability of it. It's the ultimate paradox for a kicker. You go… — Unknown Author
Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things. — Karl Marx

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