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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.
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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.
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The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work
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To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions
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If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
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A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.
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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
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When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox
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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
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Paradox with him was only truth standing on its head to attract attention
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
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The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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I'm not offended until you think I'm offended.
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The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
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Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.
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Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't
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The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.
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It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
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Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
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If complexity doesn’t beat you, paradox will
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If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.
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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
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You are never too old to become younger!
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all.
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The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.
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I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.
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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
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The paradox of life; everyone desire a fuller life. But no one wishes to increase in age.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.
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Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.
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It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
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Humans cannot create what Nature can create and Nature cannot create what Humans can create.
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.
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