Paradox Quotes

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

Love, Hurt, Until

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

Love, Two, Become

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers

Change, Accept, Curious

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
Wayne Dyer

Life, Greatest, Choices

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Soren Kierkegaard

Away, Thinker, Professor

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

Experience, Means, Goes

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

Father, Understand, Either

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James A. Baldwin

Education, Society, Become

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, Courage, Keep

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

Power, Free, Speech

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Great, Nothing

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

May, Scientific, Principles

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

Hope, Wonderful, Making

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
John Ruskin

Truth, Important, Seems

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.
Lukas Foss

Love, Find, Another

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

Time, Good, Great

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
George Will

Good, Public, Mediocrity

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Mean, Sense, Morality

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery

Spring, Oneself, Discovery

In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.
Rick Perry

Government, Lost, Become

The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James Baldwin

Education, Society, Become

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
Jack Schwartz

Away, Simply, Explain

Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
Barbara Januszkiewicz

Music, Art, Real

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Earl Warren

Time, Failure, Found

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

Democracy, Wonderful, Far

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Jack London

Life, Living, Cannot

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

Seem, Actions, Willing

Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need.
James Buchan

Great, Humanity, Fashion

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

Greed, Decade, Intriguing

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.
Jane Smiley

Death, Famous, Before

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