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.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

But human experience is usually paradoxical that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

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.

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries too. Wright lived into his 90s and one of his most famous buildings the Guggenheim Museum in New York was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.

OK so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was like 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand '55.

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

Only in growth reform and change paradoxically enough is true security to be found.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change.

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

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing and often paradoxically it is literature that suffers for it.