All things Quote by Richard Rohr

“The paradox is “a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.”

— Pearl Zhu

Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be.

— Richard P. Feynman

A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

— Alan Watts

“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

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself…

— T. S. Eliot

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

— Oscar Wilde

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

— Burgess Meredith

“Paradox reconciles all contradictions.”

— Patrick Leigh Fermor

By our very nature, we are a human paradox. We are a human being. The being is infinite and the human is very finite.…

— Mark Nepo

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

— Mason Cooley

Knowing that a paradox is required for life as we know it to exist allows me to give up trying constantly to understand it…

— Richard Brancatisano