Quotes About Paradox

Ciò che reclamo è vivere la piena contraddizione del mio tempo, che mai così bene ha reso al sarcasmo la condizione della verità.

He saw too clearly that greater freedom could lead to greater disorder and, by a dangerous dialectic, back to a loss of freedom. Hamilton's lifelong task was to try to straddle and resolve this contradiction and to balance liberty and order. The

Paradoxically, it was the philanthropic effort that most frustrated him and most frequently violated his charitable principles.

El universo no es solamente más raro de lo que suponemos, sino más raro de lo que podemos suponer.   J. B. S. HALDANE, 1924

Don't go anywhere, don't do anything, don't call anyone. I guessed talking with the guy would amount to doing something, which would contravene the don't do anything part of the command. But then, breathing was doing something, technically. So was metabolizing. My hair was growing, my beard was growing, all twenty of my nails were growing, I was losing weight. It was impossible not to do anything. So I decided that component of the order was purely rhetorical.

It helped a lonely man feel connected and isolated both at the same time.

People that thin are usually rich. We live in strange times. Poor people are fat, and rich people are thin.

Of course, there really is no chicken and egg problem; certainly there were eggs long before there were chickens.)

Could a person believe so strongly one way, yet take the opposite route?

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Reality, declares Hegel, is inherently contradictory;

How could a slight, five-foot-tall, two-legged animal create such sublimity and yet wreak so much havoc in so minuscule an interval of earth's history?

You are cold, while you yourself fan flames.

Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

what you would seem to be—or if you'd like it put more simply—Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

Well, then,' the Cat went on, 'you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.

simply—Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in its sleep, "that 'I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe'!

To begin with, said the Cat, a dog's not mad. You grant that? I suppose so, said Alice Well, then, the Cat went on, you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad. I call it purring, not growling, said Alice. Call it what you like, said the Cat.

You might just as well say," added the March Hare, "that 'I like what I get' is the same thing as 'I get what I like'!

If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

I know what you're thinking about," said Tweedle-dum, "But it ain't so, nohow." "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

Cuánto dura la eternidad? -preguntó Alicia- -A veces, solo un segundo -respondió el conejo

Sometimes things that look safe, turn out nasty, and things that look nasty, turn out safe.