Paradox Quotes

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

A totally healthy actor is a paradox.

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.

That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.