The only way to be completely self-consistent is to be constantly uttering paradoxes.
BauvardTags: humor paradox funny consistency
A circle has no end.
Isaac AsimovTags: paradox astronomy geometry riddles
Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Tags: paradox darkness light metaphor
There is a strange duality in the human which makes for an ethical paradox. We have definitions of good qualities and of bad; not changing things, but generally considered good and bad throughout the ages and throughout the species. Of the good, we think always of wisdom, tolerance, kindliness, generosity, humility; and the qualities of cruelty, greed, self-interest, graspingness, and rapacity are universally considered undesirable. And yet in our structure of society, the so-called and considered good qualities are invariable concomitants of failure, while the bad ones are the cornerstones of success…Perhaps no other animal is so torn between alternatives. Man might be described fairly adequately, if simply, as a two-legged paradox.
John SteinbeckTags: paradox good-and-bad
My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.
Brandon SandersonIt'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.
Anna JarzabTags: paradox
Ah Life,
Thou art a false truth!
Tags: wisdom life truth paradox
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.
Fulton J. SheenTags: paradox writing chesterton
I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it's not paradoxical it's not true!
C.B. MurphyTags: truth paradox zen-buddhism
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
Alexander PushkinTags: paradox simultaneity fixed-ideas
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