Quotes About Paradox

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose

Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned

He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

If I melt dry ice, can I swim without getting wet?

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

In all darkness, there is a light and in all light there is a darkness.

Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.

it's really make sense when it's does not make sense

Use your strength, but always remember that any strengthmay become a weakness.

Humans are odd. They think order and chaos are somehow opposites and try to control what won't be. But there is grace in their failings.

Sometimes no quotation works

I love you as I do all - not at all.

In a society... so madly in love with oxymoron's... ask yourself this... ...when was the last time you ever bought anything for free?

I was a happy melancholy, though — a contradiction in terms, to be sure, but every human understands this paradox, because they have all felt it.

The paradox was that Roosevelt asked loyalty of a disenfranchised group of people—people like Ernie, who'd been stripped of their rights as Americans.

De mensen zijn zo consequent als een toverbal en zo voorspelbaar als een tsunami en soms deugen ze opeens.

Diepzinnigheid die niet gebakerd ligt in paradoxale oppervlakkigheid is natuurlijk een gruwel.

The cruel paradox of weekends with kids can be boiled down to this: Parents want to relax. Kids do not.

Christianity is supposed to be all about love but it's utterly useless when you're in love.

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.

If we chose to refuse irony, we risk becoming irony's dupe.