Exposed Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

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

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…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Paradoxes haunt the lives of born wayfinders, driving them to seek resolutions to the apparent contradictions in their lives, enticing them into the world…

— Martha N. Beck

“What a paradox, what a cruelty, what an irony, there is here—that inner life and imagination may lie dull and dormant unless released, awakened,…

— Oliver Sacks

“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

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

— Burgess Meredith

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

— Pearl Zhu

“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

''Life is the ultimate paradox.''

— Jeremy Limn

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

— Ram Dass