Paradox Quotes

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.

That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

A totally healthy actor is a paradox.

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.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.