Paradox Quotes - Page 17

• I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It is in this paradox that I try to visualize by concentrating on poses, attitudes, gestures, and gazes.

  Rineke Dijkstra

  Attitude, Trying, Identity

  Rineke Dijkstra (2001). “פרויקט יישרעלי”

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• The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.

  Andre Bazin

  Duration, Lenses, Cinema

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• People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

  Vincent Cassel

  Nice, People, Way

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only laws are paradox, humor and change.

  Dan Millman

  Law, Peaceful Warrior, Way Of The Warrior

  Dan Millman (2006). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives”, p.201, H J Kramer

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• Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything is only black or white. That, I think, is the most interesting thing in human nature. The fact that we have to do one thing and pretend something else. That’s when it becomes very interesting. If you can literally speak the way you feel, then it’s not interesting anymore. It’s when you have to lie that it becomes interesting.

  Vincent Cassel

  Lying, Thinking, White

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• The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights based on race, gender and, any day now, sexual orientation. The great liberal revolution, centuries in the making, that brought forth equality in law has been overthrown. In its place we see rising a new feudal legal order of status-based rights.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Rights, Race, Order

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• There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Two, Kind, Modern

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• Sex is logically impossible after marriage. You have to overcome the paradox of Not this again, and Hey, where did you learn that?

  Emo Philips

  Sex, Hey, Overcoming

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• Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded by comparison: this paradox fuels equal parts of comedy and pathos. Never sentimental, at once corrosive and elegiac, House Mother Normal is a remarkable achievement.

  James Marcus

  Mother, Memories, Voice

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• I am really interested in who owns ideas of religion. What if I say I'm a libertarian, socialist, Occupy-supporting, anti-war, Christian? Is that a controversial idea? I don't see anything really in the original semiotics of Christianity, in the specific parable of the radical socialist Jew from Galilee who becomes the hero figure in the Homeric-word-of-mouth-gossip-novel that becomes the Bible that should make that a paradox.

  Robert Montgomery

  Christian, War, Hero

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The paradox is that, while a concern with past and future is obviously central to psychological functioning, to behave as though one were indeed in the past or future, as many do, pollutes the lively possibilities of existence.

  Erving Polster

  Past, Psychological, Possibility

  Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”

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• The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds.

  James Surowiecki

  Smart, Independent, People

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• The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Christian, Islamic, Tolerance

  FaceBook post by Dinesh D'Souza from Jan 06, 2015

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• I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.

  Peter Senge

  Leader, Embrace, Collectives

  "Changing How We Work Together". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.lionsroar.com. January 1, 2001.

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• Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed towards our species goal: Space Migration, which in turn offers the only way to re-attain individual freedom of space-time and the small-group social structures which obviously best suit our nervous systems. It is another paradox of neuro-genetics that only in space habitats can humanity return to the village life and pastoral style for which we all long.

  Timothy Leary

  Moon, Village Life, Space

  Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, George A. Koopman (1988). “Neuropolitique”, New Falcon Publications

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• To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Law, Free Will, Human Life

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.62, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautiful and soaring - it is not one or another of these things but all of them, all at once, and to fail to accept this paradox is to deny the reality of city existence.

  Paul Goldberger

  Beautiful, New York, Dirty

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• The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Brain, Mind

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Soul, Found, Scorned

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1968). “The Pursuit of God”, p.18, Fig

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• The dividing line forms-fashioned from: Dragon's tears Missed years Overcome fears The fire and ice paradox Seen with True Sight Darkness does not always equate to evil Light does not always bring good

  P. C. Cast

  Fire, Light, Sight

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• I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being me’s no joke.

  John Barth

  Sweet, Self, Play

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• Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Language, Knows

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• Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At any rate, that is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Home, America, Purpose

  Thomas Wolfe (2016). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.57, Thomas Wolfe

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• The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.

  Norman Mailer

  Two, Intense, Narcissist

  Norman Mailer (2003). “The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing”, p.134, Random House

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• Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well

  Oliver Sacks

  Feelings, Irony, Wells

  Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.84, Pan Macmillan

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