Quotes About Paradox

Fugind de defecte oamenilor, fugi È™i de virtuÈ›ile lor: iat? c? înÈ›elepciunea e p?gubitoare.

Omul e f?r? îndoial? o apariÅ£ie extraordinar?, dar nu o reuÅŸit?.

Egyptian monks who dug their own graves in order to shed tears within them, if I were to dig mine now, all I would drop in there would be cigarette butts.

This is how we recognize the man who has tendencies toward an inner quest: he will set failure above any success, he will even seek it out, unconsciously of course. This is because failure, always essential, reveals us to ourselves, permits us to see ourselves as God sees us, whereas success distances us from what is most inward in ourselves and indeed in everything.

I was alone in that cemetery overlooking the village when a pregnant woman came in. I left at once, in order not to look at this corpse-bearer at close range, nor to ruminate upon the contrast between an aggressive womb and the time-worn tombs -- between a false promise and the end of promises.

Suntem un popor prea bun, prea cumsecade È™i prea aÈ™ezat. Nu pot iubi decât o Românie în delir.

güzellik, tomurcuklar?n içinde ÅŸiÅŸinen ölümden baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir

My faculty for disappointment surpasses understanding. It is what lets me comprehend Buddha, but also what keeps me from following him.

The West: a sweet-smelling rottenness, a perfumed corpse.

History is irony on the move.

In order not to have to resolve them, I have turned all my practical difficulties into theoretical ones. Faced with the Insoluble, I breathe at last. . . .

To exist is a state as little conceivable as its contrary. No, still more inconceivable.

There is no negator who is not famished for some catastrophic yes .

We know, we feel that everything has been said, that there is nothing left to say. But we feel less that this truth affords language a strange, even unsettling status which redeems it. Words are ultimately saved because they have ceased living.

Se non si ha dentro di sé la passione dell'insolubile, non è possibile immaginare gli eccessi di cui è capace la negazione, l'impietosa lucidità della negazione.

The abundance of solutions to the aspects of existence is equalled only by their futility.

Every anomaly seduces us, Life in the first place, that anomaly par excellence.

bütün kurtuluÅŸ öÄŸretilerinin kusuru, tamamlanmam??l???n iklimi olan ÅŸiiri ortadan kald?rmalar?d?r. ÅŸair, selamete ermeye özendiÄŸinde kendine ihanet etmiÅŸ olur: selamet ÅŸark?n?n ölümüdür...

I infallibly discern a flaw in all those who are interested in the same things as myself. . . .

Life is legalized, consecrated absurdity.

feeling of being everything and the evidence of being nothing.' I happened across this phrase in my youth, and was overwhelmed by it. Everything I felt in those days, and everything I would feel from then on, was summed up in this extraordinary banal formula, the synthesis of expansion and failure, ecstasy and impasse. Most often it is not in a paradox but in a truism that a revelation appears.

The Captain was a peasant established in the Absolute.

I feel I am free but I know I am not.

No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.