Quotes About Paradox

Emotional intelligence, the perfect oxymoron!

The tourist's paradox: how to find somewhere that's free of people exactly like us.

This is the great paradox of defense mechanisms: they protect us from crushing anxiety during our childhoods, but then become an integral part of our personality that often damages us in adulthood.

To lose is to win.

it seeks to 'fix' our understanding, but at the same time it reveals how any such fixity, and such desire for stability and certainty, is constructed on shifting sands.

Ningún otro primate ha tenido nunca el peso que ponemos sobre el planeta en semejante grado. En términos ecológicos, somos casi una paradoja; gran tamaño y vida prolongada, pero abundantes hasta lo grotesco. Somos una plaga.

In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or a sense of a mission. When any of these happens to us, we are being summoned to make a transition. It will always mean leaving something behind,...The paradox here is that loss is a path to gain.

She thought the world a charnel house…and couldn't get enough of it. She thought herself unhappy…and wanted to live, unhappy, for as long as she possibly could.

Bad things happen in nice places, and nice things happen in bad places. But that doesn't mean the places themselves are hard to tell apart.

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

As a poet, he is both the firm teacher trying to guide us and the mild one inviting us to develop on our own, a paradox captured in lines like "I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me?" or "He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

The miracles do not cancel out evil, but I accept evil in order to participate in the miraculous.

I accept evil in order to participate in the miraculous.

From them, I learned another lesson: that I can accept-in fact am relieved to accept-a world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white. There is much good, but to enjoy the beauty, the love, one must bear the painful.

The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.

To understand American Indians is to understand America. This is the story of the paradoxically least and most American place in the twenty-first century. Welcome to the Rez.

It's strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness.

Sixteen different objections rose up in my mind at once and somehow they all canceled each other out. Maybe if there had been an odd number. . .

Time is the thing that everyone knows intimately – until you ask them to tell you about It.

The Quantum Mechanic will fix your car, but it won't work unless you observe him fixing it

To be and not to be, that is the quantum question

The only sound I'd like to hear from a Motivational Speaker is a death rattle

You never know whether you've already experienced your greatest moment or your worst