Quotes About Paradox

Devo comunicarvi una cosa molto importante, monsieur. Facciamo tutti schifo. Siamo tutti meravigliosi, e facciamo tutti schifo.

È una cosa strana. Quando ti accade di vedere il posto dove saresti salvo, sei sempre lì che lo guardi da fuori. Non ci sei mai dentro. È il tuo posto, ma tu non ci sei mai.

Nous sommes tous merveilleux, et nous sommes tous répugnants, Alessandro Baricco

Questa è la riva del mare. […] Né terra né mare. E' un luogo che non esiste.

Tal vez sea que la vida a veces da tales vueltas que no queda ya absolutamente nada que decir.

Damos asco todos. Somos maravillosos todos, y damos todos asco

Joy sometimes has a strange effect: it can oppress us almost as much as sorrow.

Do not think that in any case where there are two competing arguments one of them has to be right: both can be wrong.

sometimes the people who were closest to you were also those who were furthest away.

They might have pictures of skulls on the backs of their leather jackets, but in their case these were really pictures of their last X-ray rather than threats.

Darconville drew it all out to this paradox, that on the one hand there are temporary beings whom we love but are ever changing, and beyond them there is the eternal object of love itself which is incorruptible, permanent, and ideal. And yet it is not only through the former that we can take cognizance of the latter, we would, without the former, actually have no idea of the latter, the imperfect relative giving us our only idea of the perfect absolute...

They have a saying, the French, that no woman, can be truly beautiful who is not also sometimes truly ugly.

joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

The most curious spectacle in life is that of death.

If there is a change, there must be some thing that changes, yet does not change

In the absence of a plan for the elimination of the capitalist economy, the financial requirements for sodal reforms had to be provided by the capitalist economy itself. Socialist parties faced an unavoidable paradox: in order to pay for social welfare, it was imperative that the market be made as efficient as possible; to follow 'socialist' policies, it was essential to be pro-capitalist.

The paradox is that the regional association we call today the European Union, which has few of the attributes of a state, is the strongest and closest inter-state association in the world, but it is located in the continent with the greatest degree of political fragmentation.

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.

I don't even understand the connection with 'died for your sins'. He died for your sin, well, how does one affect the other? 'I hit myself in the foot with a shovel for your mortgage'...

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovered exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D." "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.