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“Paradox reconciles all contradictions.” ― Patrick Leigh Fermor

Creative vacuum
Cacophony of silence
All the rest is noise

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

 — Niels Bohr

The words of truth are always paradoxical. 

— Lao-Tzu

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

― Blaise Pascal

It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.

― E. M. Forster

One of the great constants in life is change.

Heracleitus

It seems that a paradox, sometimes, can be a shortcut to the truth.

Dejan Stojanovic

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

― Kedar Joshi

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

― Oscar Wilde

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

— Albert Einstein

Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true. 

— Niels Bohr

Nobody comes here anymore, it’s too crowded. 

― Yogi Berra 

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to. 

― Banksy 

Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction. 

― Criss Jami

6 Comments Post a comment
  1. I almost over-looked the poetry! It is so small. Good thing I always have a magnifying glass on me.

    February 17, 2025
    • A magnifying glass, bigger than a jigger, hold more than a shot glass. Thank you, Geo.

      February 18, 2025
  2. These are great, guys ❤

    ~David

    February 18, 2025
  3. Colorful ideas
    spin within themselves
    into truths of paradox?

    February 25, 2025
    • Love that haiku, LuAnne. Thank you beaucoup.
      Good question
      Itself the answer
      The mind reels
      Btw,

      Aphorisms grin
      Colorful

      February 26, 2025

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