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When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox. — Mason Cooley

she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent's reach. — Paradox Brown

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

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

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none. — Albert Einstein

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox. — Burgess Meredith

It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more. — David Brin

Confusion is not a bad thing. It's not doubt that makes a man mad. It's certainty. — Pauline Melville

This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?" — Bob Brookmeyer

A totally healthy actor is a paradox. — Vittorio Gassman

A paradox is something which tests your spiritual eyesight. — John Bailey

They're sharing a drink called loneliness, but at least its better than drinking alone. — Billy Joel

One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years. — Willard Van Orman Quine

Technology has given the dumb a tongue — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Here is a paradox: People who think imperfect are closer to perfection than their counterparts who claim that they're perfect or closer... — Assegid Habtewold

Jesus brings mystery, paradox, and tension - rarely did someone get a straight answer out of Him — Mike Erre

Just because a path never existed, doesn't mean that it isn't there ... — Lionel Suggs

The paradox of learning how to make better decisions is that it requires developing a comfort with doubt. There — Charles Duhigg

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are. — Criss Jami

It's an incredible paradox that being a doctor is so degrading and yet is so valued by society — Samuel Shem

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Charles Baudelaire

The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be. — Richard P. Feynman

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections. — Tom Rachman

Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism. — Rosalind E. Krauss

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it. — Mason Cooley

Paradox is a characteristic of truth. — Wilhelm Dilthey

It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle. — Linda Hogan

Commonality as a shared estate is an essential paradox; one calling dynamics within dynamics. It invokes the standard of not having standards. — Dew Platt

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life. — Ben Sherwood

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair. — William Shakespeare

He was a great thundering paradox of a man. — William Manchester

The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity. — Soren Kierkegaard

It's a paradox of modern times that the more we engage with social media in our virtual lives, the more antisocial we become in reality. — The School Of Life

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions. — Charles Caleb Colton

To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true. — Lionel Suggs

Paradox simply means a certain defiant joy which belongs to belief. — G.K. Chesterton

Novikov self-consistency principle, which states that any event that would cause a paradox has a zero probability of happening. — John McWilliams

Just because a prediction is true, doesn't mean that it is not false. — Lionel Suggs

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

If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties. — Virginia Woolf

Hugo Gernsback invented pulp magazines and the grandfather paradox. Not bad for a charlatan. — James Gleick

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. — Jon Stewart

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. — Jeremy Northam

That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox. — Jorge Luis Borges

It is a strange paradox: Humans drown in the water, fish drown in the land. — Javad Alizadeh

At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox. — William Poundstone

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea. — Ian Hacking

We miss the paradox that a pure world can't come from a sick and unloved people. — Jason Garner

The older he got, the less he believed and then the less he believed the more capable he was of believing. "Such a cool paradox." He said. — Jill McCorkle

The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one. — Bridget Riley

This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes. — Reid Hoffman

The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox. — Simon Critchley

That's the point of Zeno's Paradox, isn't it? Whatever your goal, you're never more than halfway there. — Sam A. Patel

it's a troubling paradox -i have total control, but only to the extent i have control over myself. — Blake Crouch

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full. — Wilbur Smith

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love. — William Watson Purkey

What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man? — Friedrich Nietzsche

I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace. — Peter Senge

Ah Life,
Thou art a false truth! — Raheel Farooq

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

Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being. — John Myers Myers

Kenji is a walking paradox of Unflinchingly Serious Person and 12-Year-Old Boy Going Through Puberty all rolled into one. — Tahereh Mafi

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise? — Brad Warner

Here we have both a paradox, and a beautiful symmetry. It is a duality. I am the earth and you are the moon, and you are the earth and I am the moon. — Joshua Edward Smith

Wise is the fool who becomes a master at laughter. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

Love is not a purpose, it's a paradox; it's not an end-goal, it's an auxiliary fuel source to help get there. — A.J. Darkholme

A deeper thought on the surface is exactly the paradox we need. — Nema Al-Araby

Here are condoms lined with a topical anesthetic for prolonged action. What a paradox. You don't feel a thing, but you can fuck for hours. — Chuck Palahniuk

A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at all is through freedom. — Clark Moustakas

To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love. — A.W. Tozer

They immediately spent a moment in bemused silence in honor of the perilous little paradox that was the English female — Julie Anne Long

A paradox may be paradoctored. — Robert A. Heinlein

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox. — Kedar Joshi

It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life. — Guy Finley

to a paradox in our experience of agency: to be master of your own stuff entails also being mastered by it. — Matthew B. Crawford

A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper. — Boris Fishman

Rain never falls on a cloud. — Marty Rubin

To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox? — Tom Robbins

We are on a journey of becoming that which we already are. That is the impossible paradox of our lives. — Leonard Jacobson

Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face. — Frank Herbert

A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention. — Alan Watts

The greatest influence in writing was G. K. Chesterton who never used a useless word, who saw the value of a paradox, and avoided what was trite. — Fulton J. Sheen

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to. — Banksy

He said it like he assumed I knew what the grandfather paradox was, because, if I didn't know, then I was a moron. I hate when people do that. — Rick Yancey

Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution. — Edward Teller

It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print. — Andrew Ferguson

All their life, people work hard to earn money, and they never earn enough money to fulfill their dreams. Is this a paradox? — Saurabh Sharma

A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes. — China Mieville

He was the second snowman to be melting away before her eyes, only this one was different. It was a paradox. The colder he became, the more he melted. — Markus Zusak

The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit. — Leo Errera

Chaos is a creator of information - another apparent paradox. — James Gleick

This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself. — Bertrand Russell

It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him. — Anthony Storr

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. — Truman Capote

It is a paradox. The less you need someone's approval, the more you are able to love them. — Susan Jeffers

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is. — Ellen Page