Paradox quotes

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◆ Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

- Frank Herbert100

◆ Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't

- Nancy Cartwright99

◆ Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

- Earl Warren99

◆ I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

- Mother Teresa99

◆ This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.

- Robert Penn Warren99

◆ 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.

- Herbert Hoover99

◆ Power is paradoxical.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt99

◆ 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.

- T S Eliot99

◆ By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

- Galileo Galilei99

◆ The old paradox: Can God make a stone so heavy that he can't lift it?

- Stephen Hawking99

◆ Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

- Bob Packwood99

◆ 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.

- Hugo Black99

◆ The words of truth are always paradoxical.

- Lao-Tze 604BC99

◆ In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

- Erich Fromm99