Quotes About Paradox

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

Personally, the NSA collecting data on me freaks me out. It totally freaks me out. And yet I'm from the generation that wants to put a GPS in their kids so I always know where they are.

It's sort of admirable that America is big enough to put up with the contemptuous self-loathing. Americans are freer than anyone in the world to say and do whatever they like, but when freedom cluelessly turns against itself, it can become a liability.

I'm a friendly fascist.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

Only God would adore his own death.

It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.

We were fitted neither for defeat nor for victory: we could be true to neither friend nor foe. Not even to ourselves!

He would flay the fox, say the ape's paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. He would beat the dogs before the lion, put the plough before the oxen, and claw where it did not itch.

In my own country I am in a far off land I am strong but I have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling.

Staying awake seemed like a gift until, as so often happens with gifts, it became a burden.

But so often, things of great beauty are full of great corruption.

In my own country I am in a far off land. I am strong but have no power. I win all yet remain a loser. At break of day I say goodnight. When I lie down I have great fear of falling.

I die of thirst beside the fountain.

The universe does not work by our rules

Paradox is a pointer telling you to look beyond it. If paradoxes bother you, that betrays your deep desire for absolutes. The relativist treats a paradox merely as interesting, perhaps amusing or even, dreadful thought, educational.

Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

One cannot have a single thing without its opposite.

Isn't it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?" Jessica

Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

She looked as though a breeze would blow her away, yet there was that about her which suggested she might stand untouched in the path of a coriolis storm.