Quotes About Paradox

Lo que constituye la salvación de un hombre, es la ruina de otro

It's paradoxical that an ordinary man like Nemur presumes to devote himself to making other people geniuses. He would like to be thought of as the discoverer of new laws of learning—the Einstein of psychology. And he has the teacher's fear of being surpassed by the student, the master's dread of having the disciple discredit his work.

What's right? Ironic that all my intelligence doesn't help me solve a problem like this.

What's right? Ironic that all my intelligence doesn't help me solve a problem like this.

Lalla, exuberant, convinced her guru, the Siddha Shrikantha, to give her the teachings by defecating on an image of Shiva that was in the guru's house. When Shrikantha asked her the reason for this act, Lalla replied: "If Shiva is everywhere, he is also in the dirt of the dumping grounds where I usually go. If every place is sacred, why bother choosing?

a paradox: 'Intensification of production to feed an increased population leads to a still greater increase in population.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Bad leadership is an oxymoron.

"A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution."

To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

I am considered an icon at the age of 20 when people like after 40s or after they die are considered icons. It's just amazing!

I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

In the present age doubt has become immune to faith and faith has dissociated itself from doubt.

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.

It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.

Sometimes the best things look the strangest.

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.