Paradox Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

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.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.