Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
A totally healthy actor is a paradox.
He was a great thundering paradox of a man.
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.