Paradox Quotes
That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself.
The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we strip the meaning from symbols.
This is the greatest paradox: the emotions cannot be trusted; yet it is the emotions that tell us the greatest truths.
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.
It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.
Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.
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.
Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.
It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things in a split second. It is how we don't implode from anxiety.
Jesus brings mystery, paradox, and tension - rarely did someone get a straight answer out of Him
The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas.
This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.
I am still learning and experiencing things and feel like I cannot state a truth. So I guess one truth I know for sure is that I cannot state one. A paradox.
Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism.
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.
It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.
Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people.
This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"
A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.
The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.
Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of our lives, ultimately, not by will power but by surrender.
Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no matter how many guns you have.
To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.
This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.
Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us is exhilarating.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?
Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.