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Since the beginning of time tricksters (the mythological origin of all clowns ) have embraced life's paradoxes, creating coherence through confusion adding disorder to the world in order to expose its lies and speak the truth .
— Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) official site : Rebel Clowning : What is it?
CIRCA aims to make clowning dangerous again, to bring it back to the street, restore its disobedience and give it back the social function it once had: its ability to disrupt, critique and heal society. Since the beginning of time tricksters (the mythological origin of all clowns) have embraced life's paradoxes , creating coherence through confusion adding disorder to the world in order to expose its lies and speak the truth .
— CIRCA site page : Rebel Clowning : What is it?
J'aime mieux e" tre homme a' paradoxes qu'homme a' pre juge s. I would rather be a man of paradoxes than of prejudices.
— 1762 E? mile ou de l'e ducation, pt.2.
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.
Anatole Broyard— New York Times 16th March 1973
It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.
andrew ferguson— "Scotty: All the news that's fit to schmooze," The Weekly Standard (2003-02-24)
Man is in fact nailed down — like Christ on the Cross — to a grid of paradoxes . . . he balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.
václav havel— As quoted in "Václav Havel: Heir to a Spiritual Legacy" by Richard L. Stanger in Christian Century (11 April 1990)
We have to be reminded over and over again that Nature is full of paradoxes.
henry fairfield osborn— as stated in "The Evolution Deceit: The Scientific Collapse of Darwinism" on page 84 by Hârun Yahya, published 2001.
The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur—what species of impossibilities are possible.
william poundstone— Chapter 1: "Paradox", p. 19
The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.
william poundstone— Chapter 12: "Omniscience", p. 260
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
Edward Teller— Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics (1991) by Edward Teller, Wendy Teller and Wilson Talley, Ch. 9, p. 135 footnote
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. Moral truisms have been so much disputed that they have begun to sparkle like so many brilliant paradoxes.
gilbert keith chesterton— "A Defence of Humilities"
"Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation and a situation."
john elkann— "Unlikely heir who saved the family jewels", Financial Times, 03-06-11
Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.
Galileo Galilei— Salviati, First Day, Stillman Drake translation (1974)
A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such as ours, produces many paradoxes. But perhaps the most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Earl Warren— Writing in Saturday Review (23 October 1971), p. 16
The concept of the infinitely small is involved in the relation of points to a line or the relation of the discrete to the continuous , and Zeno's paradoxes may have caused the Greeks to shy away from this subject.
— Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, Oxford University Press, 1972
The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a subjective side won't get us very far.
— Niels Bohr Remarks after the Solvay Conference (1927)
The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting the reality into an objective side won’t get us very far.
— Werner Heisenberg, in The Relevance of Jesus’ Own Gospel, p.11
The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur what species of impossibilities are possible.
william poundstone— William Poundstone, Labyrinths of Reason (1988), chapter 1, p. 19
The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.
william poundstone— William Poundstone, Labyrinths of Reason, chapter 12, p. 260.
These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' the alehouse.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act II, scene 1, line 139
Asking your friend to be a bridesmaid is one of the modern paradoxes: no one actually wants to do it, but everyone would be offended if you didn’t ask.
Mindy Kaling— Why Not Me? (2015)
The followers of Heraclitus insisted the Immortal Principle was change and motion. But Parmenides ' disciple, Zeno, proved through a series of paradoxes that any perception of motion and change is illusory. Reality had to be motionless.
— Robert M. Pirsig, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 29
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history , so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life .
— Fernand Braudel, in On History, University of Chicago Press, 15 February1982, p.16
PARADOX: A statement that reduces the matter at hand to complete obscurity while clarifying it. ... paradoxes are sensitive and can be routed by sneering.
— Gene Wolfe, "Words Weird and Wonderful", Castle of Days (1992), p. 237
paradoxes explain everything. Since they do, they cannot be explained.
— Gene Wolfe, The Book of the Short Sun, Volume 1: On Blue's Waters (1999), Ch. 9
paradoxes specific to the work are, in a sense, the counterpart of the contradictions of the perceivable world .
— Robin Wildstein Garvin, in Romantic Irony in the String Quartets of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Robert Schumann, ProQuest, 2008, p.9
