Quotes About Paradox

Be damned for a ram as deeply as a lamb.

The American home has become the noisiest place of utter silence on earth.

Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.

I'm simple when you want me to be complicated. And I'm complicated when you want me to be simple.

Every sign secretly contains its opposite

I'm trying to make myself invisible. That's an odd thing to attempt.

One way everything looks all right, the other way, it looks all wrong.

Paul Tillich, for example, maintained that, 'It is as atheistic to affirm the existence of God as it is to deny it.'4

Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

He wanted to know what I saw in you. I told him... he paused again, and then continued almost shyly, that you poured out honor like a fountain, all around you. That's weird. I don't feel full of honor, or anything else, except maybe confusion. Naturally not. Fountains keep nothing for themselves.

Military intelligence was as nothing to military stupidity.

Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.

Heroes. They sprang up around him like weeds. A carrier, he was seemingly unable to catch the disease he spread.

Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Although Kit and Rafe had met in the peace movement, marching, organizing, making no nukes signs, now they wanted to kill each other. They had become, also, a little pro-nuke.

I cannot see life, what it's supposed to be: I'm stumped and mystified and frozen in place. Yet other times, I realize, regardless, there's a lot to be thankful for. It's perplexing! How's a soul to know?

He was like one of those saprophytic orchids that can create harmony and wonder even as it grows and blossoms on a pile of shit, in a place of skulls and bones. He let his rifle rust, and even los it once or twice, but he won battles armes with nothing but a mandolin. (195-196)

she understood that nothing is less obvious in a man than that which seems unquestionable.

It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.

It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.

up. It hit somewhere between the eighteenth and twentieth story. And never came down. There was no nineteenth story.

oppositosis.

on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.