Paradox Quotes

503 Paradox quotes by 397 unique authors

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will. — Tom Robbins
It's weird not to be weird. — John Lennon
What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the… — John Cage
Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and… — M. Scott Peck
There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest… — Brennan Manning
Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a… — Andrew Clements
And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward… — Salman Rushdie
Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity — Stephen King
Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly. — Christopher Pike
As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution,… — Pema Chodron
But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked. “Make me”, I replied. “Beg pardon?” “Make me”, I repeated. Her eyes widened… — Erich Segal
And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only… — Howard Thurman
You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So while your inner… — Eckhart Tolle
To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die.… — Tom Robbins
In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life. — Ben Sherwood
It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole… — Ram Dass
It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief. — Christopher Pike
That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first. — Malcolm Gladwell
The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice;… — Simone de Beauvoir
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only… — Laura Hillenbrand
I figured being a bed salesman was a job of biblically bad paradox. I mean, here he was, forced to stand for eight or nine… — Rachel Cohn
All wisdom ends in paradox. — Jeffrey Eugenides
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful… — Thomas Merton
No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small… — Wendell Berry

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