Paradoxical Quotes

113 Paradoxical quotes by 91 unique authors

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. — Tom Robbins
It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone. — Andy Rooney
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. — Bertrand Russell
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that… — Bertrand Russell
Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves:… — Jerry Saltz
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming… — Arnold J. Toynbee
I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable… — Douglas Rushkoff
It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in… — Sigmund Freud
One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like… — Soren Kierkegaard
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in… — Madeleine L'Engle
…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy… — William Faulkner
It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great… — Clive Barker
The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in… — Chuck Klosterman
An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and… — James F. Cooper
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my play with them,… — James P. Carse
In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical,… — Stefan Zweig
The most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat,… — John Bradshaw
I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self… — Parker J. Palmer
In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we… — Charlie Chaplin
The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it. — Daniel Pennac
Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless… — Alan Watts
The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which… — Eckhart Tolle
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even… — Charles Caleb Colton
The words of truth are always paradoxical. — Laozi

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