(104 quotes found)
“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.”
G. K. Chesterton
“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”
Niels Bohr
“So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful for impotence.”
Winston Churchill
“... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't”
Nancy Cartwright
“Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life”
Fernand Braudel
“Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.”
John Fowles
“By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.”
Galileo Galilei
“This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.”
Walter Lippmann
“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
