Quotes About Paradox

Reading offers a kind of companionship that takes no one's place, but that no one can replace either. It offers no definitive explanation of our destiny but links us inextricably to life. Its tiny secret links remind us of how paradoxically happy we are to be alive, while illuminating how tragically absurd life is. So our reasons for reading are as strange as our reasons for living. And no one has the right to call that intimacy into account.

En ocasiones un idiota puede decir algo genial y un genio decir una idiotez.

Angel and devil," he said. "One is but a shade of the other.

An interesting fact about Starkley is that there are no interesting facts about Starkley.

If love and hate aren't true opposites, perhaps neither are pleasure and pain—if you go far enough in one extreme, it resembles the other.

In the consecration of the temple, Solomon was giving voice to an intuitive paradox of the Jewish faith: An unapproachable God chooses to abide with his people.

Pri?am sve ovo samo zato što verujem da se jednostavne stvari (smrt) mogu poništiti složenim strukturama (pripovedanje), iako je odavno trebalo da je jednostavnost zamršenija od svake složenosti.

She said, A king is the best and worst of men. Of course. Of course.

She had long been aware that her organic being produced all the physical expressions of emotion, while she herself felt nothing. It was a paradox.

However, it is possible to be a genius and still be rather stupid,

Time must be a woman because she was the greatest and most subtle traitor of all!

I don't know if history has a sense of justice. But it certainly has a sense of humor.

The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye...

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

How was a feeling be so bad if it makes me feel so good?

the nobility of what humans could be capable of, if only they weren't human.

How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?

You're a cruel, cold-gutted, heartless bastard but you've got majesty, no doubt about that.

All mystics have had psychotic breakdowns, although not all psychotics are mystics.

I've met some brave people in my life. And I've met some awfully stupid people. You're one of the rare ones that are both.

It was such an odd thing to be fighting against something so violently and yet wanting it to happen so completely.

They say that some things are worse than death. That might be true. Probably is. But life and death are the beginning and end of beauty. You can't have one without the other.

A word with obvious menace, yet an entity they were told was good?

I am going to be careful not to make too much sense