Paradox Quotes

The honourable are moved, by the nobility of another's sacrifice. The wicked are moved only by causing it.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.

~ Criss Jami

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

~ Edward Griffith Begle

I'm no one... I don't want to be anyone. I stepped into singularity to exist within a void. I'm no one... However, I am becoming... Imagination. I am grabbing conception, and leaving humanity behind. Humans have lost their sight, and individuality makes people blind to the truth. It makes people believe that anything is possible. Only nothing is possible. But then again, my words are the words of no one.

~ Lionel Suggs

There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrupt legitimacy, and to legitimately corrupt others.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Since, as is well know, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?

~ Douglas Hofstadter

Nobody ever goes to that store to shop because it’s too crowded.

~ Sol Luckman

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

~ Lionel Suggs

Humanity goes to stupidy, this part is hard to be changed it's like paradox. You can't fight with paradox....Oh, you are genius, so genius with this stupidity!

~ Deyth Banger

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The world makes, and hates, bachelors.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Starlight encased in flesh. Fire burning in so much water. Poetry living in hard spaces. oh, how the body loves

~ Lady Grey

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

~ Charles Baudelaire

Here is the paradox of it: the more of an individual you become the more you realize we are interrelated, that success of one requires the success of all.

~ James Rozoff

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

In this temporal existence, perfection is an illusion, regardless of those who believe in its concept. Perfection is devoid of any value. Perfection, after all, implies you've reached the zenith. There is no possibility or potentiality. There is no room for imagination. There is no ability to visualize a concept. Perfection is limited by its own nature, which in short, is zero.

~ Lionel Suggs

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else. and Who cares? and It's all bullshit anyway.

~ David Foster Wallace

Time becomes meaningless without memory.

~ Jon Edgell

...the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.

~ Calvin Trillin

It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you. I can't really understand addictions to drugs or alcohol. Things that control you. But an eating disorder is an addiction you control. Wait, is that paradoxical? I prefer to believe not.

~ Ellen Hopkins

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

~ Aristotle

I don't often agree with me either; there's much, in fact, with which I disagree. But that's probably because I'm so dashed ingenious that I haven't a clue what I'm saying.

~ Rodney Ulyate

Wyatt avoided the petty gunfights and headed to a saloon and rigged up a bunch of Molotov cocktails. Her firebombs against members of Tom and Vik's posse had destroyed the scenario's promise of so many wonderful gun duels. She'd killed most of their group, too, and shown everyone that she wasn't getting promoted only because of her programming skills. Her dislike of fighting had paradoxically turned her into a lethal killing machine.

~ S.j. Kincaid

Normality is the new eccentric.

~ Criss Jami

Perhaps part of the uncanny allure of fashionable clothing resides in the paradoxical impact of its expressiveness: the act of covering up with mere dead matter--cloth, fur, leather, or even metal when it is ingeniously shaped to the purpose--appears to reveal something magical about the life inside.

~ Joseph Roach

Just as the truth can be buried under a rubble of lies,a lie can be buried under a rubble of truth.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Paradox: Pinocchio says “My nose will grow if it doesn’t he is lying but it didn’t grow and if it does he is telling the truth and it did?

~ Chuck Bridges

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

The many contradictions in our lives – such as being home while feeling homeless, being busy while feeling bored, being popular while feeling lonely, being believers while feeling many doubts – can frustrate, irritate, and even discourage us. They make us feel that we are never fully present. Every door that opens for us makes us see how many more doors are closed.But there is another response. These same contradictions can bring us into touch with a deeper longing, for the fulfillment of a desire that lives beneath all desires and that only God can satisfy. Contradictions, thus understood, create the friction that can help us move toward God.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

We fear what we long for. This is the paradox.

~ Tony Brasunas

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

~ Blaise Pascal

The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. And the second-worst mistake is to think you aren't looking though the lens of your prejudices.

~ Paul La Farge

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

~ Niels Bohr

Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

~ Jacob M. Appel

He came face-to-face with the rude paradox fame had dealt him: The secret of his extraordinary art had been his ability to observe human interaction anonymously, thereby gaining insight into the emotions on display in ordinary life--it was his ability to become a fly-on-the-wall that made him famous, and fame had destroyed his ability to become a fly-on-the-wall.

~ C.r. Strahan

We have not advanced very far in our spiritual lives if we have not encountered the basic paradox of freedom, to the effect that we are most free when we are bound. But not just any way of being bound will suffice; what matters is the character of our binding. The one who would like to be an athlete, but who is unwilling to discipline his body by regular exercise and by abstinence, is not free to excel on the field or the track. His failure to train rigorously and to live abstemiously denies him the freedom to go over the bar at the desired height, or to run with the desired speed and endurance. With one concerted voice the giants of the devotional life apply the same principle to the whole of life with the dictum: Discipline is the price of freedom.

~ Elton Trueblood

In order for a god to be all-knowing, he must know even the fact of his own omniscience. But can he do this? He may know the totality of facts constituting the world; call this Y. But in order to know that he has mastered Y, he must also know that 'There are no facts unknown to me' — and this is beyond Y.It seems impossible that a god (or anyone) could ever be sure that nothing exists beyond his ken. It makes no sense to imagine [a god] arriving at this limit, peering beyond it (at what?), and satisfying himself no further facts exist. But without this certainty he cannot be sure of his own omniscience, and so does not know everything.A theist might argue that his god has created all the facts in existence. But an omniscient god would have to be sure of even this — that he is the sole creator, and that there are no facts unknown to him. And how could he come to this knowledge?

~ Roland Puccetti

The average human lifespan compared to the age of the universe is the same as comparing a blink of an eye to that human lifespan. Relatively speaking, short and long lifespans are the same. Both are non-existent compared to the infinite that’s ahead. Furthermore, we cannot change the past, and have no guarantees for the future. We are only in charge of the present. The present is nothing—and it is everything.

~ John K. Brown

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

~ Yogi Berra