Quotes About Paradox

Penso che la bellezza sia un inganno". "Come il giardino leopardiano?". Non sapevo niente di giardini leopardiani, ma risposi: "Sì. Come il mare in un giorno sereno. O come un tramonto. O come il cielo di notte. è cipria passata sopra l'orrore. Se la si toglie, restiamo soli col nostro spavento".

Lila era de una belleza casi fea, de esas que encanta a los hombres, pero que también les da miedo.

What seemed to interest and absorb her most was that all that filth, all that chaos of broken limbs and dug-out eyes and split heads was then covered—literally covered—by a church dedicated to San Giovanni Battista and by a monastery of Augustinian hermits who had a valuable library. Ah, ah—she laughed—underneath there's blood and above, God, peace, prayer, and books.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

A beautiful world with ugly people; an ugly world with beautiful people. We can never win.

If death is perfect enlightenment, life appears to be the perfect opposite.

But observers have generally noted that such people are greatly absorbed with their own thoughts even when in company. Winnicott's paradoxical description of 'being alone in the presence of others may be relevant not only to the infant with its mother, but also to those who are capable of intense concentration and preoccupation with their own inner processes even when surrounded by other people.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

It was a disaster … It was the most wonderful thing in the world.

Das Leben besteht leider eben nur selten auch aus Leben.

Pero si tu tristeza y la mía se unen, tal vez logremos una extraña felicidad.

Penteo, Postumio, Bodino y Torquemada tienen en común confiar en persecuciones que amplifican lo perseguido, y que sólo al cesar producen el efecto buscado; dicho de otro modo: empresas que triunfan fracasando, y viceversa.

Cuatro principios a tener en cuenta: Lo contrario es también frecuente. No basta mover para renovar. No basta renovar para mejorar. No hay nada que sea absolutamente empeorable

El hombre es por natura la bestia paradójica, un animal absurdo que necesita lógica.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.

In that world I knew that good was killing me, but I thought it was evil.

Creating a Quote on 'Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow' or 'Past , Present & Future' appears like cracking a Joke of Ant & Elephant because almost every writer says it in own way but none actually seems to believe or live in the same manner.

The irony is that the more a person makes the people aware honestly of something not worth for doing it; more number of people is most likely to do it more aggressively the same thing.

There is nothing strange that a person who brings actually a good change in the society only goes out of its benefit range and the people who opposed to it then often derives later on the maximum profit out of it.

There's no sinner like a young saint.

There is no sinner like a young saint.