Quotes About Paradox

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Let be be finale of seem, the only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself,

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Great. An asthmatic goon.

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement -- that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it -- that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

But when there's light, there's darkness as well.

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.

Ingenio: sutileza, perspicacia, chispa, inspiración, mente despejada y libre, no atada a condiciones previas asfixiantes. Distanciamiento: alejarse de uno mismo, alejarse del "yo" y sus inseguridades, del ego y su vanidad, poner la lógica entre paréntesis y tomar lo paradójico y lo incomprensible como punto de partida para crear humor en cantidades. Ingenio + capacidad de distanciamiento cognitivo = salud mental

La falsa paradoja: idiota feliz o sabio infeliz queda resuelta. Hay una tercera opción mejor: sabio feliz, así sea redundante, porque no existe sabiduría sin alegría.

La premisa es como sigue: cuanto más hagas del "ganar" un valor, paradójicamente, más destinado estarás a perder.

Aporia is a form of it.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

It was all horribly ironic that she felt like she would need to be insane to believe the proof that she had never been crazy.

The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-"for its own sake" rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of parenting is that if we love our children for their own sake rather than for their achievements, it's more likely that they will reach their true potential.

it was, in fact, possible to accidentally accelerate in reverse.

The images enhanced, then negated each other. Nothing was fixed. Nothing is any one thing really, and isn't that the beauty of it all?

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

Paradoxically, it is easier to construct a coherent story when you know little, when there are fewer pieces to fit into the puzzle. Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

There is no God and Mary is his mother." —GEORGE SANTAYANA, AMERICAN-SPANISH PHILOSOPHER (1863–1952), AMERICAN PRAGMATIST (SORT OF)

Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it.

Così scoprì la virtù paradossale della lettura, che è quella di astrarci dal mondo per trovargli un senso.