Paradox famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
-- Abraham Kaplan -
Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is
-- Alan Moore -
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
-- Alan Watts -
It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.
-- Andrew Ferguson -
It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.
-- Anthony Storr -
The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.
-- Bill Jensen -
I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.
-- Burgess Meredith -
A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at all is through freedom.
-- Clark Moustakas -
The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we strip the meaning from symbols.
-- David Berlinski -
So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.
-- David Hyde Pierce -
The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.
-- Deepak Chopra -
This is the greatest paradox: the emotions cannot be trusted; yet it is the emotions that tell us the greatest truths.
-- Don Herold -
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
-- Douglas Adams -
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 -
A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such as ours, produces many paradoxes. But perhaps 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 -
Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.
-- Edward Kasner -
Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.
-- Edward Teller -
There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.
-- Ellen Page -
The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.
-- Eric Hobsbawm -
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.
-- Evan Parker -
I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.
-- Ferdinand de Saussure -
It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
-- Gail Sheehy -
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f
-- Gary Hamel -
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
-- Harold Evans -
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
-- Harold Rosenberg -
The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.
-- Ian Hacking -
I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.
-- Isaac Marion -
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 Bruce -
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 -
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 -
The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.
-- James Clavell -
Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.
-- James Gleick -
Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed of in a woman, and more. You are a fascinating enigma, a paradox. You are totally honest, open; you hide nothing: yet you are the most mysterious woman I've ever met.
-- Jean M. Auel -
But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.
-- Jean Reno -
Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?
-- Jessica Mitford -
Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation and a situation.
-- John Elkann -
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
-- John Grierson -
Soderquist's Paradox: There are more horses' ***** than horses.
-- John Peers -
The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch -
The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between student and teacher here is not one of submission, but of a contest for truth.
-- Karl Jaspers -
The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.
-- Kedar Joshi -
Everything is paradox. The danger is one-dimensional thinking.
-- Lesley Hazleton -
The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.
-- Lynda Obst -
Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas.
-- Mandell Creighton -
All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.
-- Nancy Friday -
In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed.
-- Neil Strauss -
Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well
-- Oliver Sacks -
There is no paradox. There is only irony.
-- Philip K. Jason -
The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.
-- Piero Scaruffi -
The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.
-- Ram Dass -
The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to ...
-- Ruth Stout -
Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.
-- Simon Sinek -
Every moment is the paradox of now or never.
-- Simon Van Booy -
It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.
-- Sterling W Sill -
Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us is exhilarating.
-- Sue Thoele -
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 -
Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.
-- Thomas M. Disch -
To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?
-- Tom Robbins -
The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible.
-- William Poundstone -
At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.
-- William Poundstone -
Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science.
-- William Poundstone -
The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.
-- William Poundstone -
The paradox is that, while a concern with past and future is obviously central to psychological functioning, to behave as though one were indeed in the past or future, as many do, pollutes the lively possibilities of existence.
-- Erving Polster -
It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed.
-- Lewis Schiff -
The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.
-- Madeleine L'Engle -
That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster.
-- Nicolas Godin -
Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.
-- Ray Metzker -
I am still learning and experiencing things and feel like I cannot state a truth. So I guess one truth I know for sure is that I cannot state one. A paradox.
-- Richard Brancatisano -
It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.
-- William O'Neil -
There is some of the paradox of foreign policy polling. So on Iraq and Syria, the President is pretty much doing what Americans want, he's not very engaged, but they don't like the results, his polling numbers are going down. Americans may be ambivalent and disengaged with the world, they don't want a President who is ambivalent and disengaged with the world.
-- Michael Gerson -
There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.
-- Neil Tennant -
One talks much more about the evil than about the good. That is a paradox. We should only talk about the good to lighten up our existence. Chase anxiousness/fear away for a moment before it sneaks back in again to our life.
-- Odd Nerdrum -
I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.
-- Romola Garai -
Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism.
-- Rosalind E. Krauss
