Quotes of: Paradox Keyword

One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

Love

Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are. Even the dictionary has trouble accepting a paradox, calling it 'two things that seem to be contradictory but may possibly be true.' But that's not a ...

Shellen Lubin

There is a beauty in paradox when it comes to talking about things of ultimate concern. Paradox works against our tendency to stay superficial in our faith, or to rest on easy answers or categorical thinking. It breaks apart our categories by showing...

Nanette Sawyer

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Insanity is a disease, and it is highly contagious.

The Paradox of Vertical Flight

Love is the net profit on life.

Paradox Equation: Parts 1 & 2

I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading through my own books, and have been unable to find any paradox. In fact, that thing is quite tragic, and some day I sh...

G.K. Chesterton

We are what we adapt to.

Natural Selection's Paradox: The Outlaw Gene, the Religion of Money, and the Origin of Evil

Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.

Raheel Farooq

It is now my intention to draw out from the story of Abraham the dialectical consequences inherent in it, expressing them in the form of problemata , in order to see what a tremendous paradox faith is, a paradox which is capable of transforming a mur...

Love

Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.

That Mad Ache & Translator, Trader: An Essay on the Pleasantly Pervasive Paradoxes of Translation

Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…

Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

Paulo Coelho

Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness, but any particular person is not a necessary part of our being.

R.D. Laing

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Soren Kierkegaard

To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox of some kind has frequently been helpful. For the photographer to free himself of the tyranny of the visual facts upon which he is u...

Minor White

People are naturally hardworking but will stop working hard at anything if they learn from experience that their effort makes no difference.

Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making

Cualquier enfermedad introduce una duplicidad en la vida: un "ello", con sus propias necesidades, exigencias y limitaciones.

An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales

Everyone is moving at the same speed toward the future. But your children are moving at that same speed with their eyes closed. So you're the ones who've got to steer.

All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.

Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality

...true friendship, the kind the whims of life cannot break, cannot stop or limit, true friendship of this sort, you will probably find only once, and then only if you’re lucky.

The Paradox of Vertical Flight