Quotes About Paradox

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

This may sound paradoxical: one can, from a Darwinism vantage point, advise sexual restraint for women, roughly echoing traditional moral exhortation, while at the same time decrying the moral censure of women who don't take the advice. But you might as well get used to the paradox, for it's part of a more general Darwinism slant on morality.

If this sounds unbearably paradoxical, maybe you should quit reading here, because this won't be the last time we find paradox in Buddhist practice or Buddhist teachings. Then again, there's paradoxical stuff in modern physics (an electron is both a particle and a wave), and modern physics works fine.

Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure.

As Camus' reworking of the myth reveals, liberty can be found in the oddest of places—even Oran or Hades.

Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.

Los hombres eran locos. Sufrían cuando eran felices por miedo a perder la felicidad.

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better. But better can sometimes mean worse, if you're a woman

Maybe "warehouses" equals "mothers", a wide margin of error is permissible when you're dealing with super-impositions.

Everything that begins as comedy ends as a comic monologue, but we aren't laughing anymore.

Everything that begins as comedy ends as tragicomedy.

Everything that begins as comedy inevitably ends as mystery.

A bastard may have no imagination and then do one imaginative thing when you least expect it," said Espinoza.

Así que todo nos traiciona, incluida la curiosidad y la honestidad y lo que bien amamos. Si, dijo la voz, pero consuélate, en el fondo es divertido.

Una risa que me empujaba a salir huyendo de su lado y que al mismo tiempo me proporcionaba la certeza de que no existía ningún lugar adonde pudiera huir.

A medio hacer, ni crudos ni cocidos, bipolares capaces de cabalgar el huracán.

Lo que no puede ser no puede ser y además es imposible.

If you add infinity to infinity, you get infinity. If you mix the sublime and the creepy, what you end up with is creepy. Right?

What cannot be cannot be, besides which, it is impossible.

I enjoy vegetarian food like I enjoy a kick in the stomach.

a paradox: architecture can only escape the flatness imposed by drawing through drawing.

And a Fool is supposed to be wise?

It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?

I know you think me foolish, but then, I am the Fool. You know then I must be Foolish.