A Quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt

Power is paradoxical.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Quote Topics

Power Paradoxical

Quote Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt
Swiss - Author
January 5, 1921 - December 14, 1990

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

Malcolm X

My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention.

Wayne Dyer

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

Richard P. Feynman

All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial and theatrical, yet designed to suggest the inevitability and absolute truth of their messages. Dangerous because when we are not convinced by a ritual we may become aware of ourselves as having made them up, thence on the paralyzing realization that we have made up all our truths; our ceremonies, our most precious conceptions and convictions - all are mere inventions.

Barbara Myerhoff

He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the power of death: the invincible power to command the love of mankind. There was only one thing that power could not do: it could not make him able to smell himself.

Patrick Süskind

Truth sounds paradoxical!

Laozi

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

Tom Robbins

Human experience is usually paradoxical.

George Eliot

Truth is always paradoxical.

Henry David Thoreau

The truest sayings are paradoxical.

Laozi

The truth often sounds paradoxical.

Laozi

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Lao Tzu

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.

Salvador Dali

Love is power, the purest power and the greatest power: Love is God. Nothing can be higher than that. But this power is not a desire to enslave others, this power is not a destructive force. This power is the very source of creation. This power is creativity. And this power will transform you totally into a new being. It has no concern with anybody. Its whole concern is to bring your seeds to their ultimate flowering.