Quotes About Paradox

There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.

From any rational point of view I am absurd; but there are no longer any rational points of view.

She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.

She's the kind of woman who wants what she doesn't have and gets what she wants and then despises what she gets.

The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They're fond of paradox in that region.

I wonder why trying to transcend time never even succeeds in stopping it...

It hasn't escaped me that the object that keeps me alive is the same one that will kill me. In this way it's like love, or a certain kind of it.

Constance did not have a bun. She didn't need one. She more or less was a bun: neat and contained, and then so tumultuous when unleashed.

The things I believe can't all be true, though one of them must be. But I believe all of them, all three versions of Luke, at once and the same time. This contradictory way of believing seems to me, right now, the only way I can believe anything. Whatever the truth is, I will be ready for it.

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

There is a weird phenomenon where technology seems to be getting dumber in some ways as it gets smarter.

Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.

Technology. It's like science, only useless.

I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.

I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like all human-created 'progress, ' computers are problematic, giving and taking away.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.

It's all too much and not enough at the same time.

I love my fed-ex guy cause he's a drug dealer and he don't even know it...and he's always on time.

Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.