Quotes About Paradox

OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.

En tiempo de paz prepara la guerra" tiene un significado más profundo de lo que parece; quiere decir, no sólo que todas las cosas terrestres tienen un fin, que el cambio es la única ley inmutable y eterna, sino que el terreno de la paz está sembrado con las semillas de la guerra y favorece su germinación y crecimiento.

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. The question, Is life worth living? has been much discussed; particularly by those who think it is not, many of whom have written at great length in support of their view and by careful observance of the laws of health enjoyed for long terms of years the honors of successful controversy.

Ambrose Bierce

There's no curse like getting what you want.

You were a hero round these parts. That's what they call you when you kill so many people the word murderer falls short.

They say you can see all the beauty in the world in the way a hanged man swings.

They were well matched. Optimist and pessimist, idealist and pragmatist, dreamer and cynic.

There are few blessings without a curse hidden inside, nor curses without a whiff of blessing." Isern carved a little piece of chagga from a dried-out chunk. "Like most things, it's a matter of how you look at it." "Very profound." "As always." "Maybe someone whose head hurt less would enjoy your wisdom more.

Un banco con reputación de benevolencia es como una puta con reputación de castidad, siempre temes que no vayan a hacer el trabajo.

High ideals and reality are like oil and water," muttered Vick. "They don't mix well.

There are few blessings without a curse hidden inside, nor curses without a whiff of blessing.

On the other hand, it was a well-known fact that cell phones were tools of the devil. He selected

As pessoas eram fascinadas pelo fogo e repelidas pelo sofrimento humano, e não seria isso uma espécie de erro de projeto?

There's always a little decency in the worst places.... and always little secret selfishness in the best.

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

How may I hate that which I love with such intensity of passion? How should I abhor that for which my every drop of blood is boiling?

Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?

Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.

Mußte denn das so sein, daß das, was des Menschen Glückseligkeit macht, wieder die Quelle seines Elendes würde?

All is like, all unlike; all is useful and harmful, eloquent and dumb, reasonable and unreasonable. And what people profess about individual matters is often contradictory.

Por qué será que lo que colma de felicidad al hombre es al mismo tiempo la fuente de sus desgracias?

En esta vida son pocos los momentos que se resuelven con un sí o con un no.