Paradox Quotes - Page 3

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

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

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

All wisdom ends in paradox.

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

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].

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.

What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.

The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to.

The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

Everything is paradox. The danger is one-dimensional thinking.

Truth is always paradoxical.

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness, but any particular person is not a necessary part of our being.

The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

One talks much more about the evil than about the good. That is a paradox. We should only talk about the good to lighten up our existence. Chase anxiousness/fear away for a moment before it sneaks back in again to our life.

To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.

When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox.

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

The existence of God is the ultimate paradox.