Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as...

The Paradox of Freedom—the way to expand your freedom is to narrow your focus. Stay focused on saving to achieve financial freedom. Stay focused on training to achieve physical freedom. Stay focused on learning to...

Q: The Continuum didn’t think you had it in you, Jean-Luc. But I knew you did…We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons. And for one brief...

Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.

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.

Albeit, you are tAlbeit you are the only one to do the right thing, never feel alone. Always keep in mind that you’re trying something people couldn’t do ever before, you’re having the whole world...

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...

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)

What is life without incompatible realities?

The more I learn, the less I know: the less I know, the less I understand: the less I understand, the less I can relate; I know you’re crazy.

All those who perish in the wrath of God Here meet together out of every land;And ready are they to pass o’er the river, Because celestial Justice spurs them on, So that their fear is...

I leave my door locked and unlocked. You know, for stopportunities. As a lover, I’ve been known—and unknown—to be like Zeno.

I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading through my own books, and have been unable to find any...

Intricate infrastructures aren’t infinite.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

Mr. Chan,” Grace said as the wind whipped strands of her hair across her face. “What are you doing here?” She shouted over the howling wind as it lashed around them.”Catering,” the old man said...

Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.

There are three paradoxes of the Christian life: You must give in order to receive, you must let go in order to possess, and you must die in order to live.

how does she know it’s the right room?’ wondered Descant.Oh, I don’t know; mabye it’s the magical red glow coming from the doorway, or perhaps it’s the deafening howl of the temporal winds.’ said Mervall....

The many contradictions in our lives – such as being home while feeling homeless, being busy while feeling bored, being popular while feeling lonely, being believers while feeling many doubts – can frustrate, irritate, and...

[D]espite what our intuition tells us, changes in the world’s population are not generally neutral. They are either a good thing or a bad thing. But it is uncertain even what form a correct theory...

First stage is knowing the truth, second is not knowing the truth, third is realizing the paradox.

Can omniscient God, whoKnows the future, findThe Omnipotence toChange His future mind?

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.

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.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

It’s paradoxical that an ordinary man like Nemur presumes to devote himself to making other people geniuses. He would like to be thought of as the discoverer of new laws of learning—the Einstein of psychology....

Everybody knows you’re going to miss some. It’s just the reality and the probability of it. It’s the ultimate paradox for a kicker. You go out expecting to make every kick, but you also know...

It was the discovery of the quantum universe that changed everything, and that universe was so small and so dynamic that it could not be observed directly. Trying to explain their insights, scientists looked at...

Paradox reconciles all contradictions.

The total effect of Orwell’s work is an effect of paradox. He was a humane man who communicated an extreme of inhuman terror; a man committed to decency who actualised a distinctive squalor.

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but don’t three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don’t make a right, but don’t two negatives make a positive?

The incompetent always present thmeselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant, and teh feeble-minded as intellectual.

The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many forms – human rights, sexual freedom, political liberty, freedom to choose in many...

One of the great constants in life is change.

Most people don’t mind being stupid, insomuch that they do not appear stupid; appearance and being are seldom simultaneous, congruent, and conclusive.

[…] cela m’excite de penser à tout ce qui fuit dans la vie au nom de la vie.

Confusion is not a bad thing. It’s not doubt that makes a man mad. It’s certainty.

I never said most of the things I said.

Throughout the parables the paradoxical teachings continue: Give to receive. Die to live. Lose to win.

They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.

Can you be in love with more than one person and only one person at the same time? Yes, if you’re in love with two clones.

Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a...

The average human lifespan compared to the age of the universe is the same as comparing a blink of an eye to that human lifespan. Relatively speaking, short and long lifespans are the same. Both...

He was the second snowman to be melting away before her eyes, only this one was different. It was a paradox. The colder he became, the more he melted.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

The only way to be completely self-consistent is to be constantly uttering paradoxes.

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

I’m not offended until you think I’m offended.

This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be worth buying or reading.