Quotes About Paradox

I am I, and wish I wasn't.

If you're a human being, you'll be seeing something of both, because we've always wanted things both ways.

The triumph of humanism is the defeat of humanity.

the fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact that the ground of all being could be totally manifest in a flowering shrub, a human face; the fact that there was a light and that this light was also compassion.

The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed. Proficiency and results come only to those who have learned the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, or combining relaxation with activity.

transience that was yet eternal life, a perpetual perishing that was at the same time pure Being, a bundle of minute, unique particulars in which, by some unspeakable and yet self-evident paradox, was to be seen the divine source of all existence.

That horrible Benito Hoover! And yet the man had meant well enough. Which only made it, in a way, much worse. Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

parrot talking is the person himself making an utterance. The more you reflect on this, the stranger it is

You know the formula: m over nought equals infinity, m being any positive number? Well, why not reduce the equation to a simpler form by multiplying both sides by nought? In which case, you have m equals infinity times nought. That is to say that a positive number is the product of zero and infinity. Doesn't that demonstrate the creation of the universe by an infinite power out of nothing?

In all psychophysical skills we have this curious fact of the law of reversed effort: the harder we try, the worse we do the thing.

Nature is as incomprehensibly appalling as it is lovely and bountiful.

I am, and wish I wasn't.

Being, a bundle of minute, unique particulars in which, by some unspeakable and yet self-evident paradox, was to be seen the divine source of all existence.

In vain we labour at the loathsome task Not knowing if we wake or sleep ; But in the end we lift the plumèd casque Of the dead warrior ; Find no chaste corpse therein, but a soft-smiling whore.

All this is true and false; and it is true and false to say that it is true and false.

I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on  awaking; I drank and danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning.

Verily, love is death, and death is life to come.

I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking; I drank and danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning.

There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.

It is a well-known fact that kings and clowns frequently call each other cousin.

Debo comunicarle una cosa muy importante, monsieur, todos damos asco. Somos todos maravillosos, y todos damos asco.

Così finì per capire che si trovava in una situazione nota a molti umani, ma non per questo meno dolorosa: ciò che, solo, li fa sentire vivi, è qualcosa che però, lentamente, è destinato ad ammazzarli. I figli per i genitori, il successo per gli artisti, le montagne troppo alte per gli alpinisti. Scrivere libri, per Jasper Gwyn.

an impossible geometry

Demoni. Angeli andati a male. Però bellissimi.