Paradox
A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact.
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Paradox Quotations
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
Wayne Dyer
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Soren Kierkegaard
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Soren Kierkegaard
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James A. Baldwin
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
T. S. Eliot
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Galileo Galilei
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
George Will
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Erich Fromm
Paradox Translations
paradox in Dutch is paradox
paradox in French is paradoxe, paradoxal
paradox in Italian is paradossale
paradox in Spanish is paradoja, paradojo
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