A Paradox Quotes

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.

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

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.

The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one.

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.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

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

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

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

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

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles.

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.

A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at all is through freedom.

One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

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

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

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not.

I see a huge paradox in me - the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the need to nurture other people, to be the mother I never had.

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.

There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have got richer, their people have become no happier.

To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.

Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually there never was a more unmitigated liar.

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

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.

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.

The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.

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

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well

... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.

To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

There's a thing that if you - somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted by faith. So it's a kind of paradox.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.