Definition of Paradox

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Paradox

A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact.

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Paradox Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paradox Translations

paradox in Dutch is paradox
paradox in French is paradoxe, paradoxal
paradox in Italian is paradossale
paradox in Spanish is paradoja, paradojo

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