Quotes About Paradox

The further from one another, the nearer one can be.

Esperar que esteja tudo certo na vida, esperar resolver todos os meus problemas para ser feliz é um paradoxo inaceitável. Vou morrer infeliz.

The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."

Without contraries there is no progression" (Blake)—

Death, the giver of Life, the slayer of Life, the beginning and the end.

Paradoxically, Islam is the most decentralized and yet, at the same time, the most rigid religion in the world. Everyone feels entitled to rule out free discussion.

Most people don't recognize me, but they know my name. TSA people rarely recognize my name, ironically, and they are the security people.

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

That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.

We're living in interesting times, where people seem to be able to say things which are contrary to what you would call rationalism.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Ah yes, the paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

The curious thing about the Ready-Made is that I've never been able to arrive at a definition or explanation that fully satisfies me. There's still magic in the idea, so I'd rather keep it that way than try to be exoteric about it.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

To find beauty in the most grotesque things is a gift.

The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.

I'm a bad girl. I always fall for good guys.

The Replacements don't sound like The Replacements half the time!

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

Man is not satisfied with just being man . He wants to be everything, all creatures, and still remain himself. Man has unfathomable depths to his goodness and his evil, his intelligence and his ignorance--he is a dark region of wells and wishes to drink at them all.'-- O-kolkol