Paradoxes

and what else

Unambiguous to ambiguous

to say.

A small collection of quotes.

Anyone who deals with conflicts and wants to mediate between the conflicting parties has to deal with paradoxes and contradictions. Not least because the parties often fail to do so or – and even more often – work through them.

And if you don't want to deal with conflicts and don't want to mediate between conflicting parties, you also have to deal with paradoxes and contradictions. First and foremost, because that's what the others are doing – and it doesn't help on its own.

The following is a brief – collection of thoughts from others who have dealt with the phenomenon of paradoxes and continue to do so.

Good luck. It doesn’t get any worse.

Top Ten

1.

„How wonderful that we have met with a paradox.

Now we have some hope of making progress “

Niels Bohr

2.

„Whoever faces the paradox exposes himself to reality “ 

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

3.

„I'd rather be a paradox man than a man with prejudices “

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

4.

„Anyone who does not come across a paradox when thinking has stopped thinking too early “

Hans-Jürgen Quadbeck-Seeger

5.

„The path of paradox is the path to truth. To test reality, you have to let it dance on the tightrope “

Oscar Wilde

6.

„The paradox turns normality on its head “ 

Volkmar Frank

7.

„The thinker without paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre patron “

Søren Kierkegaard

8.

"Paradoxes are like sleight of hand in the universe,

that remind us of this,

that reality is often stranger than our imagination “

Brian Greene

9.

„Many paradoxes are just unfamiliar self-evident truths “

Emmanuel Wertheimer

10.

„The spirit of contradiction and the desire for paradox is in all of us “

Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe

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