427 Quotes About Paradox

Since, as is well know, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?

The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you couldn't see it for what it was.

Intricate infrastructures aren't infinite.

I don't know how it is in mathematics, but in life the best proof for something lies in its opposite.

It doubtless seems highly paradoxical to assert that Time is unreal, and that all statements which involve its reality are erroneous. Such an assertion involves a far greater departure from the natural position of mankind than is involved in the assertion of the unreality of Space or of the unreality of Matter. So decisive a breach with that natural position is not to be lightly accepted. And yet in all ages the belief in the unreality of time has proved singularly attractive.

They say it is smart to keep the drinks flowing if you really want to get someone to talk. But then how do you know what they are saying is true?

Here is the paradox of it: the more of an individual you become the more you realize we are interrelated, that success of one requires the success of all.

Language can facilitate understanding but it can also get in the way of understanding.

Just because a path never existed, doesn't mean that it isn't there...