Paradox Quotes

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules

The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.

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.

It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

Art is so often better at theology than theology is.

I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.

The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.

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.

And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.

It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist.

A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such as ours, produces many paradoxes. But perhaps the most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

No paradox, no progress.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.

In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed.

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?