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All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

I love paradox. I like to go where people don't expect me to go.

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.

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.