quotes about Paradoxical
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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt -
It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.
-- Karl Marx -
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It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist.
-- Louis de BroglieSource : "Quantum Theory at the Crossroads: Reconsidering the 1927 Solvay Conference". Book by Guido Bacciagaluppi and Antony Valentini, Cambridge University Press, p. 346, 2009.
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It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good.
-- Marion G. Romney -
Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object.
-- Paul Tillich -
It is indeed paradoxical that an industry which epitomizes all that is new and up-to-date at the same time harbours some of the oldest and least desirable attributes of work in manufacturing industry.
-- Peter DickenSource : Peter Dicken (1998). “Global Shift: Transforming the World Economy”, SAGE Publications Limited
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The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
-- Robert SouthSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 579, Sermons, 1922.
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Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned
-- Roberto CalassoSource : Roberto Calasso, William Weaver, Stephen Sartarelli (1994). “The Ruin of Kasch”, p.48, Harvard University Press
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The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.
-- Robin G. Collingwood -
So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
-- T. S. Eliot -