Quotes About Paradox

Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.

life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle -

It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief.

Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

That propaganda easily seduces even those whom it most horrifies is a paradox that Bernays grasped completely; and it is one that we must try at last to understand, if we want to change the world that Edward Bernays, among others, made for us.

Ironically, some of the lowest-paid jobs – in barbershops and nail salons – will be among the safest.

For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really operate. In those times, we learn the hardest lessons. To coin a few phrases, there are none so blind as those who will not see... and sometimes, the sweetest kittens have the sharpest claws.

It's the hardest addiction of all,' said Patrick. 'Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, that deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.

Dr. Frank Daschner once infuriated his colleagues by declaring: "You can sit on any toilet seat without the least risk, but don't, whatever you do, shake hands with your doctor

Here is the situation of Man: the more power he claims for himself, the less power he has.

Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

Fire and water cannot stay in the same place. Similarly, truth and lie reflect and describe such context; accordingly, whatever one feels that an opposite one will fail to bear it.

Having no reason is also a reason.

Since I am a fake one; despite that, I want Twitter should verify the Fakeness with a blue tick, as a genuine fake. Can I qualify if I also create my fake website to prove precisely that?

You cannot hold fire and water together in an object nor flowers and thorns in a fist; similarly, you cannot carry vanity and love in a heart because that context contradicts each other.

A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.

Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

I remember a little later wondering why things always turn out to be diametrically opposed to what you expect them to be. It's no good even trying to predict what this opposite will be because it always fools you and turns out to be the opposite of that , if you see what I mean. If you think this is geometrically impossible all I can say is that you don't know my life

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

has its rectum running through its heart; this is considered rather unsophisticated.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.