Quotes of Paradox - somelinesforyou

“ The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us. ”

- Edwin Markham

“ Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. ”

- George Eliot

“ The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. ”

- Frank Sinatra

“ Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. ”

- Erica Jong

“ They are insidious,... a vast paradox of personalities and groups, some spontaneous, some very methodical, yet they are all intent on doing us harm. ”

- Tom Ridge

“ We are witnessing a paradox - many new faces have come to power, but the face of power has not changed. ”

- Viktor Yushchenko

“ The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible. ”

- Ram Dass

“ A hypothetical paradox: what would happen in a battle between an Enterprise security team, who always get killed soon after appearing, and a squad of Imperial Stormtroopers, who can't hit the broad side of a planet? ”

- Tom Galloway

“ Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race. ”

- Arthur Henderson

“ I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. ”

- Harold Ross

“ Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ All generalizations are false, including this one. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live. ”

- Charles Bukowski

“ It ain't the heat, it's the humility. ”

- Yogi Berra

“ 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

“ Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism. Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africas impoverishment. ”

- Kwame Nkrumah

“ Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution. ”

- Edward Teller

“ Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable. ”

- Helitzer

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

- C. C. Colton

“ The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare.". ”

- Unknown

“ 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

“ So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it. ”

- G.K. Chesterton

“ 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

“ Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves. ”

- Marilyn Ferguson

“ The curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, then I can change. ”

- Carl Rogers
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