Paradox Quotes

503 Paradox quotes by 397 unique authors

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well — Oliver Sacks
The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other. — Norman Mailer
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we… — Joyce Carol Oates
It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants… — Charles Colson
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no… — John Barth
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different… — Julian Barnes
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain… — Stephen King
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. — Truman Capote
That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child… — Ted Hughes
This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think. — Soren Kierkegaard
All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel… — Gretel Ehrlich
The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you get- the more… — Gregory Maguire
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
That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much? — Jodi Picoult
In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved… — Neil Strauss
Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely strong tendency for… — Jim Butcher
Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend! It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond, 'Tis both inside… — Ian Doescher
The words of truth are always paradoxical. — Laozi
This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that… — Walter Lippmann
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. — Oscar Wilde
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is… — Hugh Black
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect… — Fernand Braudel
This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?" — Bob Brookmeyer

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