Paradox Quotes

503 Paradox quotes by 397 unique authors

But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather crude… — Jacob Bronowski
To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life. — Oscar Wilde
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. — Philip J. Davis
We are on a journey of becoming that which we already are. That is the impossible paradox of our lives. — Leonard Jacobson
Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title lies in the… — Elisha Gray
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to hide behind formalism… — Jean Dieudonne
Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not… — Norman Angell
There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony existed, you couldn't… — Itzhak Bentov
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example… — Cyrano de Bergerac
There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's… — Jerry Fodor
It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run.… — Roger Bannister
The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the… — Chogyam Trungpa
I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I… — Rick Moody
By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have slain Him; we… — Fulton J. Sheen
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There… — J.R.R. Tolkien
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either. — David Foster Wallace
It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending spree. The downside,… — Pete Gill
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. — Maxine Hong Kingston
The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows. — Mary Parker Follett
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. — Earl Warren
That's an interesting paradox to think about. Make it legal and it's no good. Why? Because as long as it's illegal the people who come… — Milton Friedman
Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper,… — Pema Chodron
There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new,… — Twyla Tharp
You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on one thing: that… — Anthony de Mello
There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether… — Alexander Hamilton

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