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he who speaks parables knows and understands the real meaning of parables better — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I vote, I participate, I am present, I am concerned - mirror of a paradoxical mockery, mirror of the indifference of all public signification. — Jean Baudrillard

The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception. — Georges Bataille

Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny. — Meghan O'Rourke

What is required for many of us, paradoxical though it may sound, is the courage to tolerate happiness without self-sabotage. — Nathaniel Branden

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes. — Elie Wiesel

God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast? — Walter Kirn

Life is paradoxical, but I believe that I could also be the same person I am today, if life would have cut me with happiness instead of pain. — Haidji

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight. — Audrey Tautou

Technology has given the dumb a tongue — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned — Roberto Calasso

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man. — Salvador Dali

While nothing in the Bible is contradictory, many of the Bible's most provocative and profound truths appear to us paradoxical. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to its original meaning. — Max Weber

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen. — Joanna Scott

The essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic. — Ernest Becker

Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another. — Hugh Nibley

Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness ... Love should be love. — Charles Baudelaire

Human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. — George Eliot

It is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and write clearly. — Mark Dintenfass

Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment. — C. A. Bartol

An invisible man is a man with power. — H.G.Wells

Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole. — Carl Jung

It was the time of year when the atmosphere streamed with unexpected hints and memories, and a paradoxical sense of renewal. — Alan Hollinghurst

The slope that leads toward insanity has the paradoxical distinction of being both steep and yet undetectable to the person sliding down it. — Suzanne Rindell

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

The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original. — DJ Spooky

The words of truth are always paradoxical. — Lao-Tzu

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up. — Malcolm X

He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Throughout the parables the paradoxical teachings continue: Give to receive. Die to live. Lose to win. — Amos Smith

Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis. — Edgar Allan Poe

My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention. — Wayne Dyer

Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created! — Avijeet Das

For the critics who think Chesterton frivolous or 'paradoxical' I have to work hard to feel even pity; sympathy is out of the question. — C.S. Lewis

If love were a location, it would be a paradoxical mixture of the safest place on earth and the most vulnerable. — Laurel Ulen Curtis

Self-deception is an exotic theory, because it makes the paradoxical claim that something called "the self" can be both deceiver and deceived. — Steven Pinker

Hyperbolic myths of origin have from the earliest times served to lend a paradoxical plausibility to the biographies of heroes. — Michael Chabon

Evil is predicable; Good is paradoxical. — Lara Biyuts

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. — Dorothy L. Sayers

This is the paradoxical responsibility of the reader: to replenish the strangeness of the novel by making connections with the familiar. — Norma Field

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. — Robert South

The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it. — Daniel Pennac

Though it may sound paradoxical, identifying our thoughts, emotions, and habitual patterns of behavior is the key to freedom & transformation. — Sharon Salzberg

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. — Bertrand Russell

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away. — Ralph Fiennes

It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good. — Marion G. Romney

How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory. — Marcel Proust

An ambitious, paradoxical world we live in -
of short attention spans
paired with the massive fear
of being forgotten too soon. — Sreesha Divakaran

Or
to quote another paradoxical gem of my dad's: sometimes you have to lose to win. — Donna Tartt

I love to read theories without ever using them when working ... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse. — Ernst Haas

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most. — Erich Fromm

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

The truth is paradoxical; but man's passion for rational coherence is even stronger than his love of truth. — Aldous Huxley

If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable. — Philippa Perry

The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering. — Terry Tempest Williams

One thing only can stand against the power of the unconscious and this, paradoxical as it may sound, is the power of individuality. — M. Esther Harding

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game. — Louise Bates Ames

Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the most compassionate of all. — Lawrence B. Lindsey

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. — Walter Isaacson

The truth often sounds paradoxical. — Laozi

Allow me to contradict my clarifications and in no time we'll get to the bottom of nothing. — Brian Spellman

I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it's not paradoxical it's not true! — C.B. Murphy

Power is paradoxical. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Honest I'm a liar. Believe me? — Brian Spellman

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. — Robin G. Collingwood

It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist. — Louis De Broglie

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. — Tom Robbins

It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors. — Thomas Huxley

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view. — Henry A. Kissinger

It is a paradoxical statement, but it takes incredible personal discipline to play with great freedom. — Dick Bennett

Enlightenment seems paradoxical but all it needs is compassion — Priyanka Deshmukh

Truth may be mysterious, indeed even paradoxical, but never, never, never contradictory. — R.C. Sproul

Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science. — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone. — Andy Rooney

In ecological terms, we are almost paradoxical: large-bodied and long-lived but grotesquely abundant. We are an outbreak. — David Quammen

Truth is always paradoxical. — Henry David Thoreau

The truest sayings are paradoxical. — Laozi

Man is a paradoxical being-the constant glory and scandal of this world. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan