Quotes About Paradox

We get the right sort of man, but the wrong side of him...

We were warm and shivering, and young and ancient, and alive.

Every curve of his face was familiar, and also, I had never seen him before.

We had been in the attic before. Also, we had never been in the attic before.

We were warm and shivering, and young and ancient, and alive. (p. 24)

Things that are indelicate can sometimes be beautiful.

We like to say that generalizations are always wrong and usually helpful.

And who was ever bold enough to do nothing because every action is senseless in infinity?

Tenho todos os defeitos dos outros e, no entanto, tudo o que eles fazem parece-me inconcebível.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

No, he is not tactful, yet have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet, at the same time, beautiful?

Nothing's the same for anyone. That's why life's this Hell, if you do a thing you're damned, and if you don't you're damned . . . .

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

He was thinking of the irony of friendship—so strong it is, and so fragile. We fly together, like straws in an eddy, to part in the open stream.

Nothing's the same for anyone. That's why life's this Hell, if you do a thing you're damned, and if you don't you're damned—

yet, have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time—beautiful?" "Beautiful?" said Miss Bartlett, puzzled at the word. "Are not beauty and delicacy the same?" "So one would have thought," said the other helplessly. "But things are so difficult, I sometimes think.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness

It was a land of facilities, where nothing had to be striven for, and success was indistinguishable from failure.

Indeed, who would have supposed that tolerance, sympathy, and a sense of humour would inhabit that militant form?

yet, have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time—beautiful?

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Yossarian knew that you had to be crazy to fly combat. But you couldn't fly combat if you were crazy. If you turned yourself in as crazy so that you couldn't fly combat that would clearly be the act of a sane person, so you couldn't really be crazy and you must fly combat. Yossarian knew all this and he recognized it as the "catch." It was Catch-22.

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

Dissonance theory and research also played a pioneering role in a second way. By highlighting the often paradoxical and even self-defeating ways that humans frequently deal with the world, dissonance theory was the first comprehensive model to focus our attention on the landscape of human irrationality and the genesis of suboptimal judgments and behaviors.