Top Paradox Quotes
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Soren Kierkegaard
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Erich Fromm
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Daphne Rae
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.
Jacqueline McKenzie
Nigel Kneale 
T. S. Eliot 
Kathy Mattea 
Paul Samuelson 
Earl Warren 
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My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
Mark Haddon 
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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
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Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
Jeremy Northam
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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
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The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?
George Stephanopoulos
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It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
John Ruskin
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He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
Arthur Henderson
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The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
John Grierson
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Earl WarrenKathy MatteaTom WolfeJack SchwartzGeorge WillBrad HenryJeremy NorthamBill OwensNiels BohrGalileo GalileiGail SheehyJoy PageJohn GriersonNigel KnealeJames Baldwin
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