Paradox Quotes - Page 6

It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.

Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science.

At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.

The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.

The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible.

If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.

The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

There is no paradox. There is only irony.

It is indeed paradoxical that an industry which epitomizes all that is new and up-to-date at the same time harbours some of the oldest and least desirable attributes of work in manufacturing industry.

That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster.

There is some of the paradox of foreign policy polling. So on Iraq and Syria, the President is pretty much doing what Americans want, he's not very engaged, but they don't like the results, his polling numbers are going down. Americans may be ambivalent and disengaged with the world, they don't want a President who is ambivalent and disengaged with the world.

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

By our very nature, we are a human paradox. We are a human being. The being is infinite and the human is very finite. We walk around like lightening in a bottle.

The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.

It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed.

Truth sounds paradoxical!

The truest sayings are paradoxical.

Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.

The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.

That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.