Quotes with paradox

  • We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
  • He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

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  • Bertrand Russell Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Arthur Henderson He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Mother Teresa I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Erich Fromm In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Brad Henry It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard 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.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Barbara Januszkiewicz Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
    Barbara Januszkiewicz
    American painter (1955 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bernard Williams People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the position.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Carl Rogers The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
    Carl Rogers
    American psychologist (1902 - 1987)
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  • Paul Valery The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Paradox, Edward Fredkin's The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them - no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.
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  • Ram Dass The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
    Ram Dass
    American spiritual teacher, psychologist and author (1931 - 2019)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard 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.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • James Baldwin The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bill Owens 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.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Adrienne Clarkson To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
    Adrienne Clarkson
    Hong Kong-born Canadian journalist and stateswoman (1939 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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