Quotes About Paradox

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

I want to be famous but unknown!

In our pragmatic task-oriented culture we also learn that feelings are a source of distortion and should not influence judgments, and we are often cautioned not to act impulsively on our feelings. But, paradoxically, we may end up acting most on our feelings when we are least aware of them, all the while deluding ourselves that we are carefully acting only on rational assessments. We are often surprisingly oblivious to the influences that our feelings have on our judgments.

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts most reluctantly, but still it is there with the other impossibilities of this world which is too full of weeping for a child to understand.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

I love humanity but I hate people.

Si no fueran unos sanguinarios hijos de puta, serían para cagarse de la risa.

The very poor are materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.

People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book. Buy it, yes, but don't read it. [Regarding "The Fool's Progress"]

There's beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere. But when I think of where I want most to be, finally, it's the old hot dusty eyeball-searing head-aching skin-blistering throat-parching boot-burning bloody goddamned desert again. Why?

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

Het is natuurlijk om dingen te willen snappen, dat is een heel menselijke drang, maar soms valt er - op een bepaalde manier - niets te snappen.

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company

One bright day in the middle of night two dead boys rose to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot one another. A deaf policeman heard the noise, and saved the lives of the two dead boys. If you don't believe this lie is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too.

I'm a babe magnet... just the wrong end.

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful.