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Quotes About Paradox

Power is paradoxical.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
~ Alan Watts
By my very nature, I would never achieve a great level of consistency. That's my appeal and my downfall rolled into one.
~ Alex Higgins
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
~ Victor Hugo
Everything contains its antithesis.
~ Juliet Stevenson
Life can't die. It's a contradiction.
~ Ruby Dee
I am a living contradiction.
~ Ekta Kapoor
I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
~ Yasmine Al Masri
I always look for contradiction in a character.
~ Rebecca Hall
I'm a walking contradiction.
~ Jason Momoa
I'm a walking contradiction. I am funny that way.
~ Sherilyn Fenn
To have a beautiful sandy beach in Scotland seems like such a contradiction.
~ Mary McCartney
We all live with contradictions.
~ Wyatt Cenac
I'm full of contradictions.
~ Juliana Hatfield
My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
In general, I like contradictions and complex situations.
~ Yorgos Lanthimos
Contradictions are fun.
~ Samuel Ervin Beam
It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.
~ Kenneth Branagh
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
~ Samuel Butler
I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
~ A. Whitney Brown
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
~ Heraclitus
Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.
~ Shirley MacLaine
To do a 'Bond' picture is a blessing but also a curse.
~ Maryam D'Abo
You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems paradoxical. But when you think about it, a bit of information is a surprise. If you already knew what the message contained, there would be no new information in it.
~ James Gleick