Paradox Quotes - Page 5

Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object.

Paradox likes contradictions with exits.

The truth often sounds paradoxical.

The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things in a split second. It is how we don't implode from anxiety.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

I do consider even going to prostitutes, or seeing a hooker or an escort, as having an emotional component, even if it's not an emotion necessarily in the relationship. Even if you are paying in order to absolve yourself of any emotional involvement. That's the paradox.

Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.

The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we strip the meaning from symbols.

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself.

There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.

Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us is exhilarating.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.

Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

I have a primary responsibility to myself; to make myself into the best person I can possibly be. Then and only then, will I have something worthwhile to share.- I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.

Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas.

Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of our lives, ultimately, not by will power but by surrender.

Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

Power is paradoxical.

The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.