Quotes About Paradox

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

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You are what you are not and are not what you are.

You believe that you believe, but you don't believe.

Every belief is a belief that falls short; one never wholly believes what one believes.

In irony a man annihilates what he posits within one and the same act; he leads us to believe in order not to be believed; he affirms to deny and denies to affirm; he creatives a positive object but it has no being other than its nothingness.

At the same time, I learned that you always lose. Only the rascals think they win.

I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly.

The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.

We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play.

Shouldn't "it works like a charm" be said about things that don't work?

There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.

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.

The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.

Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense.

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.

Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.

Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.

A street is a story in asphalt - so it's a paradox that the streets are the one place where the movies play fast and loose with continuity, something to which L.A. streets lend themselves as naturally as does the city's psyche.

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.