Quotes About Paradox

I want to be ignorant of everything in the world — everything but You, dear Jesus. And then, by the strangest of strange paradoxes, I shall be wise!

You are not the worst girl in the city of New York; the worst girl in the city of New York says that she is the best girl in the city of New York." She did not understand the paradox.

Siento que la conozco menos cuanto más la conozco. (Del amor y otros demonios).

Write about winter in the summer.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

In my experience, it's common that deep truths exist at both extremes of a dialectic, and the wisest stance on an issue will incorporate 'both of the opposites within itself.'

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

Every woman adores a Fascist.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.

If you wanted to travel backwards in time, you're out of luck. We have theories on how it might be possible to do so, but they all involve wormholes and black holes and other stuff that would probably kill you. If you want to travel forward in time, you just have to go really fast.

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.