Paradoxical Quotes
113 Paradoxical quotes by 91 unique authors
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Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.
— Hugh Nibley
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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
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While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes – this faculty…
— Thomas Ligotti
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To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon…
— Eckhart Tolle
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No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjunction of the temporal and…
— Paul Davies
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A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the…
— Ken Wilber
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Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his parts, being so…
— Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
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Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes…
— Laozi
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It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase without a kill…
— Philip Caputo
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It is one of the greatest problems. It will appear very paradoxical, but this is true - before you can lose your ego, you must…
— Rajneesh
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It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines…
— Franz Alexander
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Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.
— Charles Baudelaire
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As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it…
— Bill Gates
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This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum mechanics, and consciousness.…
— George Greenstein
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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only…
— Nikola Tesla
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The truest sayings are paradoxical.
— Laozi
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To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The truth often sounds paradoxical.
— Laozi
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The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
— Erich Fromm
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It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all had at some…
— Octavio Paz
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Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the…
— Aldous Huxley
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It may sound paradoxical, but however tight our schedule, however many things clamor to be done, we don't need to hurry. If we can keep…
— Eknath Easwaran
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It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our…
— Marion G. Romney
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[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical, namely, that he…
— Vincent de Paul
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I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in…
— Chris Kraus
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