Quotes About Paradox

As the high mountains are intersected by deep valleys, as puritanism in one age begets infidelity in the next, as in many countries the thickness of the winter's ice will be in proportion to the number of the summer musquitoes, so was the keenness of the hostility displayed on this occasion in proportion to the warmth of the support which was manifested.  As the great man was praised, so also was he abused. 

Baz? bilinçler vard?r ki, basit bir çeliÅŸki yüzünden kendilerini öldürebilirler ve bunun için de deli, saptanm?? ve kataloÄŸa girmiÅŸ bir deli olmak gerekmez; tersine, saÄŸl?kl? olmak ve akl? kendi taraf?nda bulundurmak yeterlidir.

Pues mi ser es bello pero espantoso. Y sólo es bello porque es espantoso.

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

The ultimate paradox of the liberal Republic represented by its government was that it did not dare defend itself from its own army by giving weapons to the workers who had elected it.

For the essence of a riddle is to express true facts under impossible combinations.

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

Civilization and Religion are incompatible" and "Faith is believing what you know isn't true.

a real danger by giving it an absurd name, the designations were often facetious: the Godel Gremlin, the Mandelbrot Maze, the Combinatorial Catastrophe, the Transfinite Trap, the Conway Conundrum, the Turing Torpedo, the Lorenz Labyrinth, the Boolean Bomb, the Shannon Snare, the Cantor Cataclysm…

I endeavor to be serious and you will not take me seriously

Her great weapon was her weakness, the massive deterrent to which all deferred.

Of him they said the proverb had been invented: All good swimmers are drowned.

We once more find here an illustration of the truth that every exaggeration contains the seed of its own undoing.

It is perfectly possible to believe two contradictory things at one and the same time - that is one of the brilliant faculties of the human mind.

To prolong itself, the Protectorate needed Cromwell to be more of a Leviathan, more of a ruthless sovereign, than he could ever manage to stomach. This is both his exoneration and his failure.

My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy.

Constituye una paradoja criminal rehusar a la mujer toda actividad pública, cerrarle las carreras masculinas, proclamar en todos los dominios su incapacidad y confiarle, al mismo tiempo, la empresa más delicada y más grave de cuantas existen...la formación de un ser humano.

Ver cambiar el mundo es a la vez milagroso y desolador

Dac? tr?ieÅŸti destul de mult, vei vedea c? fiecare victorie se transform? într-o înfrângere.

human transcendence must cope with the same problem: it has to found itself, though it is prohibited from ever fulfilling itself.

Paule n'en pas à une contradiction près, mais celle-ci agaçait particulièrement Henri : elle le voulait le plus glorieux de tous les hommes, et elle affectait de mépriser la gloire ; c'est qu'elle s'entêtait à se rêver telle qu'il l'avait rêvée, jadis : hautaine, sublime ; et en même temps, bien sûr, elle vivait sur terre, comme tout le monde.

C'était tellement attendu, et tellement inconcevable, (...). C'était elle encore, et à jamais son absence.

Mi ero voluta senza limiti ed ero informe come l'infinito. La cosa paradossale è che mi accorsi di questa deficienza proprio nel momento in cui scoprivo la mia individualità: la mia pretesa al'universale fin allora mi era apparsa ovvi, e invece, ecco che diveniva un tratto di carattere. Simone si interessa di tutto. Mi trovavo delimitata dal mio rifiuto dei limiti.

We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.