Paradoxical Quotes (13 quotes)

“Definitions and meanings change all the time. Truth and reality are very volatile, indefinite, multi layered and sometimes very paradoxical. That’s why it is very fiddly to make a set definition for the phenomena of our daily life. ( " Did not expect it would ever happen, there" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: all-the-time, change, daily-life, definitions, expect, fiddly, happen, indefinite, meanings, multi-layered, paradoxical, phenomena, reality, set, sometimes, truth, volatile

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“Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

tags: paradoxical

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“It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates you.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: attraction, blind, camaraderie, confusion, desire, difficulties, difficulty, easy, emotion, emotional, emotions, epigram, fact, facts, falling-in-love, feeling, feelings, food-for-thought, hate, hatred, in-love, infatuation, love, love-is-blind, lover, lovers, lovers-quote, lovesick, michael-bassey-johnson, paradox, paradoxical, real, stupid, stupid-love, true-love, truth, witty, witty-quote

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“Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is ‘open-minded’ and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware.”
― Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World

tags: america, paradoxical, truth

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“Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, basic-necessities, deep, dictum, dictums, diet, epigram, epigrams, famine, fat, food, food-shortage, gnome, gnomes, humor, humour, hunger, hungry, insightful, ironic, irony, made-me-think, make-you-think, malnutrition, maxim, maxims, nutrients, obese, obesity, overweight, paradox, paradoxical, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, puzzle, puzzling, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, starvation, starve, thought-provoking, thoughtful, underweight

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“Иногда, чтобы приблизиться к жизни, нужно довольно далеко отойти от нее.”
― Александр Житинский

tags: paradoxical

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“Paradoxism is not just another linguistic term or a literature device, but perhaps it is the definition of our post-postmodernism and metamodernism.”
― Rao Umar Javed

tags: linguistic-term, literature, metamodernism, paradox, paradoxical, paradoxism, post-post-modernism

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“Das Dilemma besteht darin, dass sie sowohl unbekannt bleiben, aber auch berühmt werden wollen.”
― Manfried Mertens, Unter dem Santinihaus: Erzählung

tags: humor, paradoxical

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“English: "Dying survives with life."

Česky: „S životem přežívá i umírání.”
― Sebastián Wortys

tags: alive, death, dying, life, live, living, paradox, paradoxical, suffering, survives

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“And while we may never be able to wrap our minds around the thing itself, it is by the power of a story that we brush against it. A story somehow perturbed out of a harmony imperturbable.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

tags: genre-bending, metaphysical-fiction, nondualism, nonduality, paradox, paradoxes, paradoxical, philosophical, speculative-fiction, transcendentalism

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“Paradoxical Humans: capable of sending Rockets and Satellites into Space, yet wobble on their own Planet on Wheels and Tires.”
― Sino Melo

tags: humans, paradox, paradoxical, planet, rocket, rockets, satellites, space

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“I feel my fear is unjust; to say I fear hell would be to say I believe, and to say I believe would be to say heaven exists still for the saintly. And therefore I could join them.”
― Me

tags: hopeful, paradoxical, religious

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“Paradoxical thinking is embedded in Eastern concepts such as yin and yang or the feminine and the masculine, and where things are comfortably described as both this and that. We in the West, by contrast, tend to view opposites as incompatible concepts that contradict each other.”
― Wayne W. Dyer, Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life

tags: eastern-philosophy, lao-tzu, paradoxical, tao-te-ching, taoism

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