Quotes About Paradox

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

Perhaps nothing is entirely true, not even this.

The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.

Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

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.

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.