The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.