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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
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
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[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 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
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 easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.
— DJ Spooky
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
Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!
— Avijeet Das
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
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
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
Allow me to contradict my clarifications and in no time we'll get to the bottom of nothing.
— Brian Spellman
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
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
Man is a paradoxical being-the constant glory and scandal of this world.
— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan