30 examples of paradox

Paradox

30 examples of paradox

A paradox is a literary or rhetorical figure that consists of an idea of ​​apparent logical contradiction that, however, embodies a certain meaning and coherence. Let's know some examples.

Paradoxes in popular sayings

  • At home blacksmith, wooden knife.
  • Every cloud has a silver lining.
  • Dress me slowly I'm in a hurry.
  • Less is more.
  • Easy Come Easy Go.
  • Cheap is expensive.
  • Much ado About Nothing.
  • Love is a bad neighbor, and if there is no one, it is worse.
  • It is conspicuous by its absence.
  • He who does not play plays well.

Paradoxes in famous phrases

  • I only know that I know nothing. Socrates
  • The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. Blaise pascal
  • If you yearn for peace, prepare for war. Publio Flavio Vegecio
  • Forbidden to forbid. Revolution of the Sorbonne, May 1968
  • Western man loses health to earn money and then loses money to regain health. Attributed to the Dalai Lama
  • Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. Matthew 16:25
  • Thus, the last will be first and the first, last. Matthew 20, 16
  • Whoever becomes small like this child, that will be the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. Matthew 18, 4

Paradoxes in literature

I give advice, old age:
never take my advice.
Antonio Machado

No good deed goes unpunished.
Oscar Wilde

The best way to get rid of temptation is to indulge in it.
Oscar Wilde

Live: -Know how to die; This is how
this unfortunate search afflicts me , this fierce good,
and all the Being in my soul is reflected,
and searching without faith, I die of faith .
Jose Marti

I live without living in me,
and such a high life I hope
die because I do not die .
Attributed to Santa Teresa de Ávila

To
seem wants the boldness of your looking crazy
the child who puts the coconut
and then is afraid of him.

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

What humor can be stranger
than the one that, lacking advice,
he himself blurs the mirror
and feels that it is not clear?

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

Four billion
my neighbors on earth,
four billion
and I alone on my roof .
Gloria Fuertes

Oh natural love! How good and bad,
In good and in bad I praise you and condemn you
 ,
And with life and death I equal:
You are a subject, bad and good,
Or good to the one who loves you as a gift,
And bad to the one who loves you by poison.
Lope de Vega

How well I know the fountain that flows and runs,
even though it is night!
(...)
Her clarity is never darkened
and I know that all of her light is coming
even though it is night
 .
Saint John of the Cross

Why, then you have wounded
this heart, did you not heal it?
And, well, you have stolen him from me,
why did you leave him like that,
and don't take the theft that you stole?

Saint John of the Cross

I was so
absorbed so absorbed and estranged,
that my sense
of all private feeling remained ,
and the spirit endowed
with an understanding not understanding .
all science transcending.
Saint John of the Cross

    • Update date: March 6, 2021.

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