427 Quotes About Paradox

It's a bit like staring into another dimension, one that has a different set of mathematical and physical laws. For me, it also serves as reminder that that the mind of God is unknowable, that things that seem contradictory to us only appear so because we have no context for them, or aren't seeing the full picture.

Just because a prediction is true, doesn't mean that it is not false.

Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.

I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading through my own books, and have been unable to find any paradox. In fact, that thing is quite tragic, and some day I shall hope to write an epic called 'Paradox Lost'.

The greatest influence in writing was G. K. Chesterton who never used a useless word, who saw the value of a paradox, and avoided what was trite.

I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it's not paradoxical it's not true!

One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.

لو كان العقل البشري بسيط التكوين، بحيث .يسهل فهمه، لكنا جد بلهاء أمام فهمه

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