Paradox Quotes

The Universe is very, very big.It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict ru...

Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.''I understand the conc...

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, ...

My son used to believe that he could look at a plane in flight and make it explode in midair by simp...

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim direc...

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction invol...

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies...

Since, as is well know, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, a...

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

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

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...

Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

how does she know it's the right room?' wondered Descant.Oh, I don't know; mabye it's the magical re...

They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.

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

Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks ...

Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, h...

The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the abse...

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, an...

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructe...

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centur...

First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back t...

Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry abou...

Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom...

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture ca...

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

You are never too old to become younger!

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.

Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of...

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger tha...

The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us...

The method of addition is quite charming if it involves adding to the self such things as a cat, a d...

I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a subjective side much too arbitrary. ...

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

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art ...

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that t...

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for ...

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger ...

Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the flu...

If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should ...

When I was a boy I felt that the roll of rhyme in poetry was to compel one to find the un-obvious- b...

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradoxFor he is everything and nothingHero and foolPo...

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

It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but ...

That’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something o...

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly mun...

This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets m...

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just becaus...

Our subject is, you see, impelled towards the good by, paradoxically, being impelled towards evil. T...

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

They're sharing a drink called loneliness, but at least its better than drinking alone.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.(Translation: It is not certain that everything is unce...

It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created...

Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude o...

...the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will...

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy ...