Paradox Quotes Page 2

Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.

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

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

Money is either the best or the worst area of communication in our marriages.

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious.

But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony existed, you couldn't move. One could say that man sneaks through the crack where paradox exists.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism.

Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy.

Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It is always that you must be simple, and then, if you are simple, you will stimulate the imagination of the observer.

Art is so often better at theology than theology is.

Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the most compassionate of all.

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

Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.

I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself. I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with the nonhuman world and yet somehow survives still intact individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.

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!

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.