Quotes About Paradox

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Anything in life has a ying and a yang. It has a good and a bad. And in the case of freedom, well, freedom also gives you the freedom to be stupid.

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

... the first step to eternal live is you have to die.

I do not believe in an afterlife although I am bringing a change of underwear.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

I don't know about you, but all this modern technology that's supposed to save us time and effort has actually ended up making things more complicated in my life, eating up extra time.

The feeling of being both trapped and free at the same time is the most mind twisting feeling of all.

The things which give joy to you may also give you horror!

Wise men are wise yet their actions always seem otherwise to others who always think of the otherwise

God is a necessary evil.

Living appears good, long, and tiresome, but it is way too short than a single stroke of lightning.

How can one be so serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous?

Never forget:we walk on hell, gazing at flowers.

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.

Darkness and light. Black and white. But which is death, and which is life?

Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed,And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds;On both his wings, one black, the other white,Bears greatest names in his wild airy flight.

In the heart of the slaughterhouse -- always -- enough room to nourish the awe.

Everything either this or that and oversimplified. But life was much more complicated. Life was much more than this or that, black or white. Life was grayish. "And

Trotsky once asked, "How many Aristotles are herding swine, and how many swineherds are sitting on thrones?

Only the gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage. Destroy self-exaltation and increase confidence. Destroy the pushiness of self-assertion and deliver from the paralysis of self-doubt.

If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.

God presents Himself in the light; He also conceals Himself by the light—just as we present ourselves in our garments and conceal ourselves by our garments.