Paradox Quotes

503 Paradox quotes by 397 unique authors

I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being antiheroic, antimonumental, antiabstract,… — Claes Oldenburg
Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics. — Edward Kasner
The endless, useless urge to look on life comprehensively, to take a bird's-eye view of ourselves and judge the dimensions of what we have or… — Christian Wiman
We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good… — Abraham Kaplan
When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe. But… — Edward Kasner
Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of… — Lancelot Hogben
A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at all is through… — Clark Moustakas
The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by… — Okakura Kakuzo
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of… — Alexander Fraser Tytler
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding. — Harold Evans
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait… — Anatole Broyard
It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy… — Anthony Storr
This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer… — Randy Alcorn
I didn’t think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goodness geniuses of our time, a walking paradox who wore a cloak… — Otto Penzler
Hackman's paradox: Groups have natural advantages: they have more resources than individuals; greater diversity of resources; more flexibility in deploying the resources; many opportunities for… — J. Richard Hackman
There is no paradox. There is only irony. — Philip K. Jason
"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively… — Michio Kaku
A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as… — Unknown Author
...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego is the problem… — Rajneesh
Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to… — Carl Jung
People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human… — Michael Pollan
It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes,… — Eric Hoffer
It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake… — Ariel Gore

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