Quotes About Paradox

O por el contrario, si fue así, pudo ser, y si así fuera, sería; pero como no es, no es. ¡Es pura lógica!

Study your wife closely, for the next four-and-twenty hours. If your good lady doesn't exhibit something in the shape of a contradiction in that time, Heaven help you!—you have married a monster.

because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk.

She felt oddly safe with him, though not safe from him.

Dac? nu mori tân?r, uneori trebuie s? te contrazici.

The paradox is that liberalism is concerned with the emotions above all else, as proof of which the word happiness stands at the very center of its thought, but in its effort to establish the emotions, or certain among them, in some sort of freedom, liberalism somehow tends to deny them in their full possibility.

The human mind is complex. Telly can be both explosive and cunning. Impulsive and brilliant. One does not negate the other.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

The gym is always open, except when it's closed.

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

Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.

The faster you go, the idler you get.

One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.

When you learn to love hell you will be in heaven.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.