Paradoxical Quotes

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.

It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.

Power is paradoxical.

The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

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

Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in history anymore. We don't believe in these mythical creatures anymore.

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

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.

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.

[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical, namely, that he who is hasty falls back in the interests of God.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

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

Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.

In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.

It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

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.

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.

Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions.

All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in order to keep them from falling into oblivion.

The truest sayings are paradoxical.

Truth sounds paradoxical!

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game

Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs.

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

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

Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.

Some people brag about standing for something so hard and so much, that they do not realize that they are actually sitting.

It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates you.

Technology has given the dumb a tongue

he who speaks parables knows and understands the real meaning of parables better

Change comes about when you become what you are, not when you try to become what you are not.

Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'.