Paradox Quotations | Page 2

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

No paradox, no progress.

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

In a state like Pennsylvania, the paradox is, to win, you have to get the conservative Democrats in the west, but you still have to do well with the collar-county moderates in the east. [Mitt] Romney did fine with the moderates, but not the conservative Democrats. Trump is doing well with the conservative Democrats. Now Trump has to seal the deal with the moderates in the east.

You could have the paradox of lifetime job guarantees and far fewer workers.

The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

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

All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox because you are constantly making choices.

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

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

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

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.

Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

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

The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

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.

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

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.

I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.

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

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

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.

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.

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?

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

A totally healthy actor is a paradox.

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.

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

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

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

It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money.

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

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

There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

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.

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

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

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

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.

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

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

the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.

... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.

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.

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

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

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