Paul Goodman may refer to:
- Paul Goodman (politician) (born 1959), British politician
- Paul Goodman (ice hockey) (1908–1959), American ice hockey player
- Paul Goodman (sound engineer), Grammy Award-winning sound engineer
- Paul Goodman (writer) (1911–1972), American novelist, playwright, poet, psychotherapist and social critic.
Famous quotes containing the words paul goodman, paul and/or goodman:
“For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby’s woeful face or the venerable tower.”
—Paul Goodman (1911–1972)
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with ‘the world’; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. Rather—speaking loosely and without trying to answer either Pilate’s question or Tarski’s—a version is to be taken to be true when it offends no unyielding beliefs and none of its own precepts.”
—Nelson Goodman (b. 1906)