Quotes About Paradox

Devilish in my innocence.

Alone I continue living, yet when a visitor arrives it kills me.

How suicidal happiness can be!

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

Absurdo, completamente absurdo, una misma se confunde cuando juega con esos absurdos

Kafka, it seems, is at his best when he fails.

that wasn't mere beauty, but an aberration of heaven

At the moment there is nothing definite to say about the question or about me. I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. Franz

I was wise, if you will, because I was prepared to die at any moment, but this was not because I had taken care of everything I was required to do, but rather because I had done none of it and also couldn't hope ever to do any of it.

He found the Archimedean point, but he used it against himself; it seems that he was permitted to find it only under this condition

their devilish kindness, their murderous love

No one sings as purely as those who inhabit the deepest hell – what we take to be the song of angels is their song'.

Manche leugnen den Jammer durch Hinweis auf die Sonne, er leugnet die Sonne durch Hinweis auf den Jammer.

El mundo es perverso y todavía encima se le ayuda

correct understanding of a matter and misunderstanding the matter are not mutually exclusive.

Je?li b?dzie pan oddycha? szybko, udusi si? pan sob?, wewn?trzn? trucizn?; je?li b?dzie pan powoli oddycha?, udusi si? pan nie nadaj?cym si? dla p?uc powietrzem, zbuntowan? materi?. Je?li za? chcia? pan znale?? sobie w?asn? miar?, zginie pan ju? od samego poszukiwania.

I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes out of the wild side. The wildness is very different from me. That's why I think I like it.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Gandhi, when he was on the salt march, had everyone singing the song of Rabindranath Tagore, which goes, 'Walk alone, walk alone...' Now there's some paradox in that, with a million people on the march! But he was cultivating the thought that each individual has dignity, and the dignity consists partly in the willingness to stand up to authority.

God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.

I recognized that a lot in my writing I'm trying to show both sides of the coin - the sour and sweet. Iron & Wine seemed to fit with that duality and I thought it would be more interesting to call the project that rather than use Sam Beam.

It is ironic that losing makes you more liked than winning.

The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.