Paradox Quotes

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa
Love You Hurt Hurts Paradox More Only Until Found
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 Hoover
Free Free Speech Power Suppressed Own Ladder Every Immediately Paradox Except Attaining Climbed His Dictator Each Speech
Trump is unloved in his own house. A figure of ridicule, a theatrical creation, he is almost sympathetic. He was told by the greedy and the outright stupid that he would make a swell president. The Liar's Paradox has spun out of control, with liars lying to a liar who believed the lie. What would that be called? Fox News, I think. Richard Cohen
News Lie Liar Stupid Greedy Own Control Creation Think Liars Lying President Unloved Out Paradox Would Outright He Almost House Make His Spun Trump Theatrical Figure Swell Who Ridicule Believed Fox Fox News Sympathetic
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. James Baldwin
Education Become Society Paradox Examine He Educated Begins Precisely Being Which Conscious
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. Erich Fromm
Love Become Paradox Remain Occurs Beings Two
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
Life Great Thoughts Nothing Else Paradox Paradoxes Embryo Only Great Souls Call Souls Passions Intellectual Intellectual Life Than Pathos Just Which Grandiose Really Who Exposed Thinker
Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together. Joan Jett
Life Time Together Physics Strong Wave Paradox Both Particle Like Quantum Quantum Physics Exists Same Same Time Things Fragile
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. Eliot
Experience Every Relative Paradox Somehow Absolute Never Beyond Always Itself Escapes Goes Means
The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect. Peter A. Levine
Power Destroy Paradox Both Transform Trauma
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. Marlene Dietrich
Father King Incompetence Dilemma Paradox Neither Abdicate Would See Delegate Only Could Sons Understand His Duties Either Realizing
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. Thomas Wolfe
Strange Our Paradox Haunting Only Perhaps Fixed America Movement Certain Here
It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money. Gore Vidal
Freedom Money Law Entrepreneur Live Society Considerable Paradox Morals Allowed Abuse Make Although Private Order Which Public Use Now
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports. Henry Giroux
Education Future People Higher Education Few Young Humanities Liberal Liberal Arts Claiming Paradox Moral Finds Civic Higher Invest Supports Caught Intellectual Itself Offering Arts While Young People Them
Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law. Mary Manin Morrissey
Work Love God You Law Achieve Paradox Find Given Only Struggled Go Up Order After Them Let Go Ever Letting Letting Go
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. Ralph Peters
Great Technology Soul Age Problems Face Paradox Powerful Human Biggest Century Human Soul Internationally
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. Soren Kierkegaard
Teacher You Paradox Take Away Professor Thinker
You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox. Wayne Dyer
Life You Paradox Make Greatest Doomed Choices
In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth. Denis Villeneuve
Truth You Paradox Find Contradiction
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. George Will
Good Politicians Mediocrity Paradox Constitute Because Accomplishes Public Public Good Fascinate Elite
Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe. Henri Nouwen
Experience Anxiety Fear Society Increased Despair Our Indeed Ways Giants Paradox Threatening More Proportion Feel Powerful Powerless Equal Western Western Society New-Born Showing Even Ever Technological Muscles Babe
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising. Barbara Januszkiewicz
Music Art Key Vision Jazz Softness Fusion Paradox Exchanges Major Like Real Reflecting Improvising Different Capturing Play Hardness Here
This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
God Man Nothing Everything Paradox Compared
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave. Erica Jong
Love Death Beginning Those Paradox About Only Poetry How Sources Eros Subjects
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. Herman Kahn
Simple Result Perspective Thought Mistakes Paradox More Failures Due Caused Often Decision-Making Inadequate Social Aspects Utility
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 Black
Happiness Life First Lasting Aiming Way Pleasure Paradox Seek Something Purpose Outside Self Miss Condition Very Should Full
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. Kathy Mattea
Great You Joy Just Be Pain Living Earth Those Paradox Great Joy Well Just Midst Things Numb
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