Paradox Quotes
Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?
Knowing that a paradox is required for life as we know it to exist allows me to give up trying constantly to understand it and instead just feel it and enjoy it.
I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.
The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that would be best made made by people who are junior.
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.
The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.
An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.
The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.
If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.
The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible.
At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.
Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist, " says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)
It took teams of LEP warlocks to slow down time for a few hours
A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.
No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This is Toba's Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt.
Ah, it is impossible.""No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!
Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.
Your fear of becoming a cliche is what turns you into one. If you remove the fear, we are all really walking contradictions, hypocrites and paradoxical cliches
I have to go, " I say, helpless.What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?
The NSA may, or may not have rejected the invisible secret operative application form I never even bothered to have sent over to them. I'll never know...
The paradox of education is that any man only educated by others is an uneducated man without self-education you cannot be educated one in strict sense of this term.
A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their society has the same problem as a town with many intellectuals and yet with many problems
Pops added, "you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.""And if you do, you never get the results you expected, " (Katherine) replied.
If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree
Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself.
A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper.
Thus the little mermaid learned her world’s greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts.
Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not about Christ, it's not about life.
Paradoxes are what draws Wisdom like bees to honey! Hence, where there is no paradox (Complexity), there is no need for Wisdom....
A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance
The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love. -p83
To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.