Paradox Quotes

503 Paradox quotes by 397 unique authors

That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox. — Jorge Luis Borges
The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between student… — Karl Jaspers
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution. — Edward Teller
Power is paradoxical. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
It's such a paradox for them to say, "Oh, my God, I've thrown away my life," and continue to do that for the last month… — Patch Adams
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being… — Parker J. Palmer
The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part… — Lev Grossman
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the… — Tom Robbins
When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence… — Harry Hay
He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men… — William Manchester
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our… — Sri Aurobindo
What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because… — Sri Aurobindo
It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have an individual relationship… — Nick Hornby
The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that… — Alister E. McGrath
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle,… — B.K.S. Iyengar
The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative. — Eric Hobsbawm
The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea. — Ian Hacking
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. — Evan Parker
The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love,… — Parker J. Palmer
It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle. — Linda Hogan
Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never… — Freeman Dyson
Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes. — James Gleick
New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a… — Paul Goldberger
It is one of those simple but beautiful paradoxes of life: When a person feels that he is truly accepted by another, as he is,… — Thomas Gordon

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