Paradox Quotes

“You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.”

“Infinite patience produces immediate results.”

“When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!”

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

“Every burned book enlightens the world.”

“A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.”

“Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.”

“The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.”

“loveliness is infernally sad.”

“If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.”

“All the stream that's roaring byCame out of a needle's eye.”

“It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.”

“A tree there is that from its topmost boughIs half all glittering flame and half all greenAbounding foliage moistened with the dew;And half is half and yet is all the scene;And half and half consume what they renew.”

“Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?”

“There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.”

“A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.”

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

“My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention.”

“The superfluous, a very necessary thing.”

“Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.”

“Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.”

“Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems”

“Nothing recedes like success.”

“Thou art to me a delicious torment.”

“Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.”