Paradox Quotes

503 Paradox quotes by 397 unique authors

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every… — Ogden Nash
There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or… — Andy Hargreaves
The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and… — Vincent Nichols
If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the… — John Cowper Powys
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long… — Norman O. Brown
A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freud’s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious, detached and authoritarian… — Unknown Author
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then… — Nigel Kneale
A totally healthy actor is a paradox. — Vittorio Gassman
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. — Anne Carson
Anarchy is all around us. Without it, our world would fall apart. All progress is due to it. All order extends from it. All blessed… — Jeffrey Tucker
Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from… — Steven James
Every moment is the paradox of now or never. — Simon Van Booy
Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people. — Betsy Lerner
First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are… — Boris Beizer
When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox. — Mason Cooley
The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles. — Gabrielle Bernstein
Science can explain what's happening down inside atoms and what's happening at the edge of the universe, but it cannot explain consciousness. It's a paradox--withou… — Peter Russell
The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens… — Jacob M. Appel
I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with… — Oscar Wilde
The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them. — Jack Bruce
Paul Otremba’s remarkable first book, The Currency, is an intriguing foray into lyric epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with the implacable, paradox-ridden nature of knowledge and… — Michael Collier
I do not think it is logical to try and outsmart the smartest people. Instead, my weapons are irony and paradox. The joy of life… — Hugh Jackman
The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them… — Ernest Becker
There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable way of concluding… — Niels Henrik Abel

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