paradox Quotes

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

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.

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.

No truly great person is completely free of some madness.

The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.

Things that are probably impossible are better than things that are improbably possible.

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.

Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

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

Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.