It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.
~By Clive Barker ~
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.
~By Nigel Kneale ~
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
~By Edward Teller ~
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
~By Galileo Galilei ~
A totally healthy actor is a paradox.
~By Vittorio Gassman ~
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.
~By James Baldwin ~
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
~By Jack London ~
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
~By Robert South ~
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
~By Lao Tzu ~
To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
~By Adrienne Clarkson ~
That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.
~By Jacqueline McKenzie ~
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
~By Wendell Willkie ~
There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.
~By Lukas Foss ~
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
~By John Fowles ~
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
~By Erich Fromm ~
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
~By George Will ~
Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.
~By Paul Berg ~
You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
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.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
~By Shana Alexander ~
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
~By Hugo Black ~
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
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.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
~By Norman O. Brown ~
The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?
~By George Stephanopoulos ~
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
~By Walter Anderson ~
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
~By Earl Warren ~
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
~By Marcel Proust ~
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.
~By David Antin ~
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
~By Erich Fromm ~
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
~By Elfriede Jelinek ~
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
~By Harold Evans ~
It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
~By Brad Henry ~
The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.
~By Paul Samuelson ~
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.
~By Bill Owens ~
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
~By Fernand Braudel ~
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.
~By Paul Valery ~
He was a great thundering paradox of a man.
~By William Manchester ~
Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.
~By M. E. W. Sherwood ~
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
~By Thomas Wolfe ~
Power is paradoxical.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
~By George Eliot ~
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
~By Gail Sheehy ~
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
~By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.
~By Joy Page ~
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
~By John Ruskin ~
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.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.
~By Isabelle Huppert ~
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
~By Anatole Broyard ~
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
~By Mark Haddon ~
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.
~By Bryce Dallas Howard ~
The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.
~By Ralph Peters ~
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
~By Niels Bohr ~
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.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.
~By Elisha Gray ~
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.
~By Evan Parker ~
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.
~By Herman Kahn ~
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
~By Dorothy L. Sayers ~
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
~By Ogden Nash ~
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.
~By Paul Dirac ~
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
~By Carl Rogers ~
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
~By George Eliot ~
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
~By Daphne Rae ~
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
~By John Grierson ~
But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big Chill, sort of. Four friends, who are not quite happy with their life, and every year they get together for a week and look for some comfort from each other.
~By Lawrence Kasdan ~
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
~By Alan Watts ~
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