An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON PARADOX
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855, Danish philosopher, writer)
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
Marcel Proust (1871-1922, French novelist)
A beautiful person might not have a beautiful life.
Taiwanese Proverb
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
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