Great saying by great authors 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

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

— Pearl Zhu

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

— Burgess Meredith

“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

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