427 Quotes About Paradox

The paradox is “a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.

The chicken came first. Now, can we please move on?

First, you need to understand the attitude that the current executive committee has toward IT," says Richter. "Do they believe that IT is a back-office function and a necessary evil? If the executive committee does not believe in the strategic importance of IT, and you don't have the credibility to change their perspective, your chances of success are very slim. In that case, you may want to look for other professional opportunities elsewhere.

So I shut up and hold out a one-pound note, but he throws it on the ground, snatches back both pieces of bread, and shouts at me, 'We don't have any bread! And don't come back!

… Protestantism and Calvinism, while giving expression to a new feeling of freedom, at the same time constituted an escape from the burden of freedom

To her he was still mythic, still larger than life, still the man who could deactivate monsters. He was also the man who made them.

The paradox of any religion is that it teaches you to be humanist, but in most cases it is merely attracted by more egoist and selfish minds in order to avoid punishment and to be rewarded afterlife. The more egocentric someone is, the more pleasures he would like to get after life. No egocentric mind can content himself with finite mundane pleasures, instead his pleasures should be infinite, lasting forever without any spatio-temporal limitation.

The paradox of life is that you reject whatever life offers you at first, considering that you deserve more than this, but a bit later you yourself ask life to give you even less than its previous offer.

The paradox of education is that any man only educated by others is an uneducated man; without self-education you cannot be educated one in strict sense of this term.