paradox Quotes

No truly great person is completely free of some madness.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.

If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.