Paradox Quotes

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  I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Marriage

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• The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

  Carl Rogers

  Change, Appreciation, Hypnosis

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• You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

  Margaret Atwood

  Attitude, Reality, Trying

  "Attitude". Margaret Atwood's commencement address at the University of Toronto, Canada, www.humanity.org. June 14, 1983.

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• The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Enlightenment, Degrees, Contradiction

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Jan 18, 2012

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• If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules

  Paul Arden

  Breaking Rules, Problem, Solve

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• A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

  Alan Watts

  Attention, Standing

  Alan Watts (1994). “Talking Zen”, Shambhala Publications

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• How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

  Niels Bohr

  Thinking, Progress, Physics

  "Niels Bohr: The Man, His Science, and the World They Changed". Book by Ruth Moore, 1966.

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• So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Life Is, One Thing

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  The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Confidence, Wisdom

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• Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping.

  Hubert Reeves

  God, Nature, Men

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• Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies.

  Eileen Chang

  Memories, Reality, Discrepancies Between

  "Written on Water". Book by Eileen Chang, trans. Andrew F. Jones New York: Columbia University Press, 2. "Writing of One's Own", pp. 17 - 18, 2005.

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• The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Travel, Home

  "The Ghost Girl and the Naked Savage" by James Hynes, www.nytimes.com. December 05, 2008.

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• All wisdom ends in paradox.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Ends

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• To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Education, Creativity, Knowledge

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• The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

  Denis Waitley

  Wisdom, Deep Thought, Trying

  Denis Waitley (1999). “The Psychology of Winning for the 21st Century”, Waitley Institute

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• 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

  Mean, Absolutes, Relative

  "Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley". Doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard, Chapter 7, 1964.

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• Most innovations fail. And companies that don’t innovate die.

  Henry Chesbrough

  Business, Failure, Innovation

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• Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Reflection, Circles

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Art, Opposites, World

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• In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Smile, Two

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

  John Hurt

  Irony, Life Is

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 22, 2007.

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• The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

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  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Money, Long

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• After you get what you want you don't want it.

  Irving Berlin

  Life, Desire, Want

  Song: After You Get What You Want

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Reality, Rope

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.50, First Avenue Editions

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• No paradox, no progress.

  Niels Bohr

  Progress

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