4 Metaphors for paradoxes

The paradoxes of one generation are the common-places of the next; what the savants of to-day whisper in the ear, the Hyde Park orators of to-morrow will bawl from their platforms.

And, paradox as this may seem, still if results be the test of systems, the influence of the public schools and colleges of England, in the course of the last century, at least will bear out one side of the contrast as I have drawn it.

The seeming paradox is the soberest fact.

A paradox is a fantastic thing that is said once: a fashion is a more fantastic thing that is said a sufficient number of times.

4 Metaphors for  paradoxes