Paradoxical Quotes

113 Paradoxical quotes by 91 unique authors

Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another. — Hugh Nibley
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love. — Charles Baudelaire
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
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
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
The truest sayings are paradoxical. — Laozi
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
The truth often sounds paradoxical. — Laozi
The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most. — Erich Fromm
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
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
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
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
[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
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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