Quotes About Paradox

Death is complicated." -Johann Kraus

Ambiguity supposes eventual resolution of itself whereas certitude implies further ambiguity.

Each moment / of utterance is the true one; likewise none is true.

A paradox is something which tests your spiritual eyesight.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being me's no joke.

Zorunluluk hem tragedya hem de komedya üretir. ÖptüÄŸünüz ya da kafan?z? çarpt???n?z ÅŸeydir." sayfa 27

As soon as feeling is regarded as a phase of a physiological process instead of a product of it—namely a new entity metaphysically different from it—the paradox

Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

cynics were once romantics. Most of them still are.

He has never been shouted at so quietly.

I think we've established that her son is crazy, and crazy cancels out clever every time.

As for my being a horror writer, I actually think horror is a very conservative genre. The horror comes when you do something wrong--when you challenge religion or society or nature--and then you must pay. I personally consider myself a radical, but I publish conservative material. That's quite a paradox.

A streak of presence surrounded by a dim glow of absence.

It seemed, in those days, that the more the angels had to ride on, and talk over distances with, and get together by, the more separate they became. The more they made the world smaller, the greater the distances between them.

Inside it seemed much larger than it was, or was smaller than it looked, he couldn't tell which.

The name of God is the name of the impossible, and the love of God transports us beyond ourselves and the constraints imposed upon the world by what the Aufklärer called "reason" and Kant called the conditions of possibility, transporting us toward the impossible. Today, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud are all dead but God is doing just fine, thank you very much.

In the morning I'm often anti-semantic.

I am two fools, I know,For loving, and for saying soIn whining poetry.

If that be simply perfectest Which can by no way be expresst But negatives, my love is so. To All, which all love, I say no. Negative Love

If that be simply perfectest Which can by no way be expressed But negatives, my love is so. To all which all love, I say no. If any who deciphers best What we know not, ourselves, can know Let him teach me that nothing.