Paradoxes Quotes

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. - Wendell Willkie

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! - Agnes Repplier

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution. - Edward Teller

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings. - Walter Lippmann

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. - Paul Dirac

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. - Evan Parker

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. - Oscar Wilde

The point of this book was to explore the paradoxes and difficulties of the period. - Mike Marqusee

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. - Marcel Proust

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. - Soren Kierkegaard