Paradox Quote by Jan Wolkers

“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading…

— G.K. Chesterton

The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights…

— Paul Craig Roberts

:)So Micayla didn't quite understand the meaning of the word paradox, so like most things I struggle to understand or make sense of I…

— Micayla Ludick Basson

When you're in a room with twenty people who've all got the True Theory of the universe, it's difficult to know what to do.…

— Margaret Wertheim

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come…

— Laura Hillenbrand

The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The body is…

— Margaret M. Lock

I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and they're unarticulated,…

— Maggie Nelson

Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing,…

— David Richo

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

— Ian Hacking

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

— John Fowles