Paradox Quotes - Page 4

It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.

The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

Human experience is usually paradoxical.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

This is the greatest paradox: the emotions cannot be trusted; yet it is the emotions that tell us the greatest truths.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

The only laws are paradox, humor and change.

There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!

There's a paradox in every paradigm.

It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.

Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is

To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.

A totally healthy actor is a paradox.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.

Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism.

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.

This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.