Paradox Quotes

To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.

It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!

Be good and you will be lonely.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.

Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.

To be young, really young, takes a very long time.

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

I'm not nearly young enough to know everything

The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.

Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

The grandest virtue seems deficient.

My reputation grows with every failure.

This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices - open-handedness - to be a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in; and as one poison will sometimes neutralise another, when wholesome remedies would not avail, so he was restrained by a bad passion from quaffing his full measure of evil, when virtue might have sought to hold him back in vain.

To lead, one must follow.

The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself.

Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.

The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Those who have the courage to dare will perish. Those who have the courage not to dare will live.

The following statement is true. The previous statement is false.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

You get the most approval when you care the least about it.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

To be premature is to be perfect

People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.

Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.*

Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

A zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything; therefore, a zero is something, yet zero.

The more intelligent, the less sane

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared