Definition of Paradoxical
Paradoxical
Of the nature of a paradox.
Inclined to paradoxes, or to tenets or notions contrary to received opinions.
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Paradoxical Quotations
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao Tzu
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
George Eliot
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Leo Buscaglia
It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
Andy Rooney
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell
Power is paradoxical.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Arnold J. Toynbee
The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.
Stanislav Grof
Paradoxical Translations
paradoxical in Dutch is paradoxaal
paradoxical in French is paradoxal
paradoxical in German is paradox
paradoxical in Hungarian is paradox
paradoxical in Italian is paradossale
paradoxical in Portuguese is paradoxo
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