Paradox Quotes

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. (Erich Fromm)
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. View quote
Niels Bohr
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. View quote
Paul Valéry
Man is an embodied paradox, A bundle of contradictions. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
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. View quote
James Baldwin
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. View quote
Mother Teresa
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. View quote
Jack London
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. (Carl Rogers)
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. View quote
John Fowles
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative. View quote
Eric Hobsbawm
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. View quote
T. S. Eliot
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful for impotence. View quote
Winston Churchill
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. View quote
Mark Haddon
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. View quote
Arthur Henderson
But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives. (Michael Gruber)
It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day. View quote
Brad Henry
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb. View quote
Kathy Mattea
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. View quote
Lukas Foss
If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of mind are projected onto things, our second paradox makes sense: on the one hand, thought in babies can be viewed as pure accommodation or exploratory movements, but on the other this very same thought is only one, long, completely autistic waking dream. View quote
Jean Piaget