Quotes About Paradox

"Happy marriage" is a contradiction in terms.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye." —Shana Alexander

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." ?—Carrie Snow

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." —Carrie Snow "Beam

The universe would rather live with paradox than infinite timelines,

How are you making utopia sound like Hell on Earth?

But the bottom line is this, once a timeline affects its own past, even though it erases itself in the process, the effect it had still remains.

With regard to women's rights and sexual-minority rights, and, of course, in particular when it came to the issue of racism, everything was presented as though it had never been worse at the point at which it had never been better.

amid the endless celebrations of diversity, the greatest irony of all remains that the one thing people cannot bring themselves to celebrate is the culture that encouraged such diversity in the first place.

It's as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust.

Paradoxically, there is also considerable persuasion power in inquiry and listening.

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man. —Bertrand Russell

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age.

There is not much mystery about death. It's being alive that's the mystery. Death is the normality, life is the exception.

Criticizing common sense, it must be said, is a tricky business,

This is the strategy paradox. The main cause of strategic failure, Raynor argues, is not bad strategy, but great strategy that just happens to be wrong. Bad strategy is characterized by lack of vision, muddled leadership, and inept execution—not the stuff of success for sure, but more likely to lead to persistent mediocrity than colossal failure.

When every answer and its opposite appears equally obvious, then, as Lazarsfeld put it, "something is wrong with the entire argument of 'obviousness.' "5

We must learn to live with contradictions, to have faith in skepticism, to advance toward the solution of a problem by admitting as a possibility that it may be insoluble.

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.