Paradox Quotes

“A Paradox is truth spelt with seven letters instead of five”

“These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' the alehouse.”

“Paradoxes explain everything. Since they do, they cannot be explained.”

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“You undergo too strict a paradox,
Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.”

“The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.”

“Paradoxes often arise because theory routinely refuses to be subordinate to reality.”

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“The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.”

“The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.”

“I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.”

“More than any other Hellenic thinker, Julian insisted on the virtue of paradox and on the importance of the search for religious truth.”

“The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur — what species of impossibilities are possible.”

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”

“PARADOX: A statement that reduces the matter at hand to complete obscurity while clarifying it. … Paradoxes are sensitive and can be routed by sneering.”

“Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science.”

“Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian, in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."”

“It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist.”

“Since the beginning of time tricksters (the mythological origin of all clowns) have embraced life's paradoxes, creating coherence through confusion — adding disorder to the world in order to expose its lies and speak the truth.”

“For thence, — a paradox
Which comforts while it mocks, —
Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:
What I aspired to be,
And was not, comforts me:
A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.”