Quotes About Paradox

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

Paradoxically, therefore, as economics becomes more truly scientific, it will become less of a science. Acknowledging these limitations will free it to serve us once more.

It's possible to hate the filthy world and still love it with an abstract pitying love.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.

Yeah but Father, is that what you meant by God being a paradox? How he was so pleased to get a chance to nail his Son there that he even gave up his plan to fry the whole world in Hell?

It is with philosophy as with religion : men marvel at the absurdity of other people's tenets, while exactly parallel absurdities remain in their own.

managed to come up with a plan in just under eight minutes, but after I had examined it from every angle I realized it wasn't workable in this situation. It required powerful machinery, thousands of experts, a time paradox, a nuclear submarine, a cat, a crowbar, and a birthday cake. And all I had was a mouthful of air and a bad idea. I reluctantly abandoned my plan.

He found Washington at once august and disgusting.

Schools create the problems they seem to exist to solve.

Are you the thing you want most, or its' opposite? If I want nothing more than water, is it because I am water or because I have none?

It could very well be that if a grandfather paradox really gets going and history from the point of the twonky forward starts to come unglued... ...we all softly and suddenly vanish away. Not just you and me, but the Sun, Jupiter, Alpha Centauri and the Andromeda Galaxy. And so forth. This is known as the Cosmic Disgust Theory. Or: "If you're going to play games like that, I'll take my marbles and go home. Signed, God.

And I, a twister, love, what I abhor.

I respect everything I make fun of.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.

The strongest of us are but the puniest weaklings, are but tinkling cymbals and sounding brass, before the eternal mystery.

How contrary an animal is man, who most treasures what he refuses or abandons! ("Augustus")

If I were asked to answer, in one sentence, the question 'What was Wittgenstein's biggest contribution to philosophy', I should answer 'His asking of the question "Can one play chess without the Queen?

Odd, don't you think? We could drown a litter of kittens that is no sort of threat to us – but these creatures we shall carefully rear.

There are "well-known secrets" out there and there are people who are "so happy they could die." Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, they're right. Basically what I'm saying is, I usually don't know what people are talking about.

David Garner, an eating disorder specialist, has explained that the best way to gain weight is to go on a diet to lose weight!

My geography savors a delicious paradox: Home - a grounding - found in unearthly beauty. The predominant colors are blue, emerald, and terra-cotta. Every day, every season, I taste these colors and the intricate flavors of their unaccountable tones and hues. I have yet to earn this land. Perhaps I never will. Home is a religion. Sensibly you understand the need for it, yet not even sensible people can explain it. - from the Chapter "Finding Home

Sunset Towers faced east and had no towers.