Paradox Quotes - Page 5

• There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

  William Henry Harrison

  Nature, Military, Exercise

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• As you open your awareness, life will improve of itself, you won't even have to try. It's a beautiful paradox: the more you open your consciousness, the fewer unpleasant events intrude themselves into your awareness.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Beautiful, Trying, Events

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.72, Gibbs Smith

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• For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Men, History, Evil

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• The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.

  Anne Geddes

  Photography, Simple, Creating

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• Art is so often better at theology than theology is.

  Christian Wiman

  Funny, Art, Theology

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• Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever.

  Florence King

  Friendship, Relationship, Wall

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• The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have lost much by subjecting themselves to what they call the laws and regulations of civilized socieities.

  Tomochichi

  Native American, Men, White

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• I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Cold Hearted, Serious, Sensitive

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• Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

  Edward Kasner

  Math, Mathematics, Mathematical

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• I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

  Oscar Wilde

  Air, Ideas, Fancy

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• That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster.

  Nicolas Godin

  Thinking, Long

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit.

  Leo Errera

  Truth, Needs, Fruit

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• Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

  John Fowles

  Passion, Want, Ends

  "The Aristos: A Self-Portrait in Ideas". Book by John Fowles, 1964.

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• To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.

  Mason Cooley

  Advice, Trying, Rhyme

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• In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.

  Rick Perry

  Responsibility, Government, Sight

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• It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

  Wilbur Smith

  Men, Strange, Talent

  Wilbur Smith (2008). “Rage”, p.239, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

  William Poundstone

  Philosophy, Oddities, Deeper

  "Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge". Book by William Poundstone, 1988.

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• When I run into a paradox I think either I'm a total horse's ass to have gotten to this point, or I'm fruitfully near the edge of my discipline. It adds excitement to life to wonder which it is.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Horse, Thinking

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• I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

  Burgess Meredith

  Amusement

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new, while habit implies routine and repetition. That paradox intrigues me because it occupies the place where creativity and skill rub up against each other.

  Twyla Tharp

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Military, War, Names

  "Eduardo Galeano, Chronicler of Latin America’s “Open Veins,” on His New Book 'Children of the Days'". Interview With Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 8, 2013.

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• Dreams are self-created, but dreamers often do not understand the images that their own minds produce. Therein lays the essential paradox of dreams; dreams reveal that we all possess subconscious ability. Furthermore, our subconscious mind, as it is revealed through dreams, proves itself to be talented, artistic, insightful, perceptive and intelligent.

  Charles McPhee

  Dream, Intelligent, Self

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must start by loving yourself. If you have traits that you consider unlovable, you must love them anyway... it's a paradox.

  Christiane Northrup

  Healing, Heart, Health

  Christiane Northrup, M.D. (2017). “A Daily Dose of Women's Wisdom”, p.33, Hay House, Inc

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• One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Writing, Trying, Fiction

  Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?

  Jodi Picoult

  Loss, Gone

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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