Paradox Quotes - Page 2

The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.

We live to survive our paradoxes.

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.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

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

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

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

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

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

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.

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

He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.

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.

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

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?

There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.

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

It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed of in a woman, and more. You are a fascinating enigma, a paradox. You are totally honest, open; you hide nothing: yet you are the most mysterious woman I've ever met.

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.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.