Paradoxical Quotes

As an actor, there`s a bit of you that`s decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there`s a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

Before I do a play I say that I hope it`s going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It`s like a drug.

Always with huge gratitude and pleasure I remember the films of Sergei Parajanov which I love very much. His way of thinking, his paradoxical, poetical . . . ability to love the beauty and the ability to be absolutely free within his own vision.

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one`s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.

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.

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. It may sound paradoxical, but it is in fact reality which forms the mystery of our existence.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

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.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother`s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.

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 sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors