Feelings Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“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

A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all things honestly…

— Richard Rohr

“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 mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself to understand itself.”

— Adam Elenbaas

“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most…

— Thomas Keneally

I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to…

— Horace Walpole

“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

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

— Burgess Meredith