Quotes About Paradox

Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing about improvising.

Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.

Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free.

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

This is the paradox of thrift: belt-tightening causes people to lose their jobs, because other people are not buying what they produce, so their debt burden rises rather than falls.

Belief systems thrive in circumstances of collision. They are energized by their opposites.

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.

I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

Some are born to greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them for blowing off the hands and feet of Nicaraguan coffee harvesters. The rest of us are forced to work. It's amusing but nothing logical or scientific.

and the strange, undeniable fact that the presence of death can be joyful.

I have always been an anarchist and a monarchist.