Paradox Quotes

503 Paradox quotes by 397 unique authors

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions. — Charles Caleb Colton
Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us… — Sue Thoele
The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that… — Kedar Joshi
The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox. — Kedar Joshi
The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must start… — Christiane Northrup
Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were… — Neal Stephenson
The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be. — Richard P. Feynman
You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair. — William Shakespeare
For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And… — Robert Browning
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist… — Neil Gaiman
This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event… — Robert Penn Warren
If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in… — Alain de Botton
A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all things honestly we… — Richard Rohr
This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its… — F L Lucas
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition. — Harold Rosenberg
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by… — Clement Greenberg
A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology,… — Denis Donoghue
Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually… — Walter J. Phillips
The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has become a growth… — Michael Kimmelman
Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite rules is the… — Mu Xin
Two identical things do not exist at all, so there is no need to be 'somebody.' You just be yourself, and suddenly you are unique,… — Rajneesh
Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a… — Robert D. Richardson
This is the greatest paradox: the emotions cannot be trusted; yet it is the emotions that tell us the greatest truths. — Don Herold
All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense;… — Arthur Bryant

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