A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich

A totally healthy actor is a paradox.
Vittorio Gassman

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
Harold Evans

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.
Joy Page

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.
Paul Samuelson

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Galileo Galilei

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
T. S. Eliot

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.
Herman Kahn

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.
William Manchester

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
Arthur Henderson

Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.
M. E. W. Sherwood

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
Niels Bohr

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Norman O. Brown

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Erich Fromm

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
Brad Henry

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
Hugo Black