Paradox Quotes

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.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

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.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

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 great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

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

This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.

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

Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need.

It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

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.

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

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

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

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

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.