Paradox Quotes

503 Paradox quotes by 397 unique authors

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. — Tennessee Williams
When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be… — Wendell Willkie
I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other. — Romola Garai
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. — Oscar Wilde
You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact… — Woody Allen
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. — Cormac McCarthy
Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. — Dag Hammarskjold
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis… — Gary Hamel
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose. — Douglas Adams
Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. — Jon Stewart
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Procrastinate now, don't put it off. — Ellen DeGeneres
And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love,… — Julian Barnes
Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in… — Alan Moore
The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains,… — Rebecca Solnit
One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like… — Soren Kierkegaard
The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain. — Madeleine L'Engle
What’s this? What are the antagonists doing here – infiltrating their own audience? Well, they’re not really. It’s somebody else’s audience at the moment, and… — Thomas Pynchon
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of… — James A. Baldwin
There's a paradox in every paradigm. — Ani DiFranco
The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be… — Terry Goodkind
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy… — Jack London
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man? — Friedrich Nietzsche
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. — Oscar Wilde
Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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