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Quotes About Paradox

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
~ Bob Dylan
True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.
~ Noel Gallagher
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
~ Sri Aurobindo
It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.
~ Ann Landers
I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.
~ Anthony Burgess
It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.
~ Stephen Crane
For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.
~ Boles?aw Prus
The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
~ John Bunyan
The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
~ Albert Camus
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
~ Albert Camus
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.
~ Kelly Braffet, Josie and Jack
My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
~ Seth Godin
man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity
~ Paul Tillich
How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.
~ Laurence Sterne
According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.
~ Marcel Proust
There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.
~ Thomas Huxley
The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
All in the eye of the beholder - Some of the most destructive forces in the world (Fire & Water), can also have the power of beauty.
~ Martin R. Lemieux
A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
~ Snob corrupted.
Usually, we hate the noise but sometimes we feel empty without that noise!
~ Nikhil Karke
I thought the invention of mobile phone was to save our time & money, be we are doing exactly the opposite.
~ Srinivas Shenoy