Quotes About Paradox

I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.

Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.

It's in this valour, human, absurd, that I see true grace.

It's in this valor, human, absurd, that I see true grace.

C'est curieux, un écrivain. C'est une contradiction et aussi un non-sens. Écrire, c'est aussi ne pas parler. C'est se taire. C'est hurler sans bruit.

You ask how loving can happen—the emotion of loving. She answers: Perhaps a sudden lapse in the logic of the universe.

Vuestra Reverencia hace de mí un luterano? -preguntó el filósofo con débil sonrisa. -No, amigo mío, temo que no tengáis bastante fe para ser un hereje.

Admitía que se puede ser feliz sin dejar de estar triste.

Era una de esas épocas en que la razón humana se halla presa dentro de un círculo en llamas.

It is sometimes fortunate, that the means which are taken to produce certain effects upon the mind have a tendency directly opposite to what is expected.

Is it not strange,' she said, 'that a little cruelty makes them love me all the more?

Was it my fault that I wanted a Schrödinger's cat of a boyfriend, a man who was several directly conflicting things simultaneously.

Ik weet dat de psychologie ons modellen kan geven. Daardoor kun je leren verbanden te begrijpen en patronen te zien. En dat helpt, zeker. Maar het meeste zullen we toch nooit kunnen begrijpen. Het leven is zo paradoxaal. Wat er met ons gebeurt en hoe we daarmee omgaan, het verdriet en de dood, de blijdschap en de liefde. Geen kennis in de wereld kan jouw eenzaamheid genezen of jou bevrijden van je grootste angst

Esa es la sociedad; una reunión de víctimas y de verdugos. ¡Dichoso aquel que no es verdugo y víctima a un tiempo! ¡Pícaros, necios, inocentes! ¡Más dichoso aún, si hay excepciones, el que puede ser excepción!

Nothing is more strange than truth — nothing, at times, more terrible!

I traveled into the future to get back in time.

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It's very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it.

since presumably the world exists for God's enjoyment, not in any simple sense, of course, but as you enjoy the being of a child even when he is in every way a thorn in your heart.

Forever after, the thought of her would be painful, because it had been pleasant. Strange how that is.

I am in a state of categorical unbelief. I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean. (Jack Boughton)

Ideology is a straight-edge ruler in a fractal universe.

Is it odd how asymmetrical Is symmetry? Symmetry is asymmetrical. How odd it is. This stanza remains unchanged if read word by word from the end to the beginning-it is symmetrical with respect to backward reading.

himself, then according to the sign he should be one of those he does not shave. On the other hand