Hugo Black

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

American Judge

George A. Moore

An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

Irish Novelist

Joy Page

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

American Actress

John Ruskin

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

English Writer

Jeremy Northam

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

English Actor

John Fowles

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

English Novelist

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Wayne Dyer

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

American Psychologist

Denis Villeneuve

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

Canadian Director

John Hurt

British Actor

Remember, a paradox seems contradictory but can reveal a deeper truth.

Common Confusion

Use 'paradox' to describe complex issues, not simple opposites.

Context Sensitivity

'Paradox' is used in literature to create thoughtful observations.

Figurative Language

In logic and philosophy, 'paradox' carries weight; use it seriously.

Academic Tone

'Paradox' invites us to think deeper to resolve seeming contradictions.

Intellectual Curiosity

Use real paradoxes from history or science to clarify your point.

Specific Examples

In science, 'paradox' often highlights a problem with current understanding.

Technical Details

A scientific 'paradox' requires an advanced grasp of the subject to appreciate.

Challenging Concepts

 one of the great inland seas of the world. But there's kind of a paradox here, because it looks like it's surrounded by desert. Why is this sea here? The reason it's here is because, on the right-hand side, you see two little rivers kind of coming down through the sand, feeding this basin with water.

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 should take an infinite amount of time. In other words, it says that all motion is impossible. This conclusion is clearly absurd, but where is the flaw in the logic? To resolve the paradox, it helps to turn the story into a math problem. Let's supposed that Zeno's house is one mile from the park

What is Zeno's Dichotomy...

 be less likely to be offered the job, and be paid less than Johns. The unconscious bias is there, but we just have to look at how we can move past it. And, you know, it's interesting, there's some research that talks about why this is the case and it's called the merit paradox.

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 sometimes known as a lurking variable, which is a hidden additional factor that significantly influences results. Here, the hidden factor is the relative proportion of patients who arrive in good or poor health. Simpson's paradox isn't just a hypothetical scenario.

How statistics can be...

 I realized that in a world crowded with variation and contradiction, foolish preachers, only foolish preachers like I used to be, see no paradox in the myths and fictions they use to assert authenticity. So I understood the vital importance of self-knowledge,

Inside the mind of a...

 gives us a way to protect ourselves now we make the menu longer instead of making one dish that people are willing to cry drive across town to buy and so we end up with the hacker paradox right number one we need to care enough to

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 It was like we were in two completely different worlds. And so as I contemplated all of this and looked at what was happening, I suddenly realized that there was a paradox that was emerging inside of me,

Jeffrey Brown: How we...

 I turn on my desires, I wake up when Now, in this paradox between love and desire, what seems to be so puzzling is that the very ingredients that nurture love -- mutuality, reciprocity,

The secret to desire in...

 As the troll stomps off in anger, the paradoxes cheer you for winning them their freedom, and promise to lead you to the treasure at the top of the stairs. If you can reach it.

Can you solve the...

 escape not even light we don't have the physics to describe what a black hole is because it leads to a paradox a breakdown in our understanding of how the universe works