Paradox Quote by Patrick Leigh Fermor Download Open image ““Paradox reconciles all contradictions.”” — Patrick Leigh Fermor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Paradox
“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The paradox is “a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
“We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Yes, and you’ve never been able to understand the suggestiveness of paradox and contradiction. That’s your problem. You live and breathe paradox and contradiction,… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
“Truth may be mysterious, indeed even paradoxical, but never, never, never contradictory.” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“A paradox is a truth in absolute defiance of the instant powers of logic to communicate it.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Any system that contradicts itself can never be wrong, and welcome to the world of contradictions.....” — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
“I found my mind wandering at games; loved boxing and was good at it; and in summer, having chosen rowing instead of cricket, lay… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
“A little later, as we talked of the Maniot dirges by which I was obsessed, I was surprised to hear this bloodshot-eyed and barefoot… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
“At school some learning by heart was compulsory, though not irksome. But this intake was out-distanced many times, as it always is among people… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
“[Poetry] is a field where England can take on all challengers.” — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
“Often, half in a bay of the mountains and half on a headland, a small and nearly amphibian Schloss mouldered in the failing light… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
“Scattered with poppies, the golden-green waves of the cornfields faded. The red sun seemed to tip one end of a pair of scales below… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
“These summer nights are short. Going to bed before midnight is unthinkable and talk, wine, moonlight and the warm air are often in league… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
:)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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
