Quotes About Paradox

Birth was the death of him.

Sorrow herself will reveal one day that she was only the beneficent shadow of Joy. Will Evil ever show herself the beneficent shadow of Good?

I would I were in the kingdom of heaven if it be as you and Mr. Graham take it for! said Clementina. You must be in it, my lady, or you couldn't wish it to be such as it is. Can one be in it and yet seem to himself to be out of it. Malcolm? So many are out of it that seem to be in it, my lady, that one might well imagine it the other way around with some.

To say a man might disobey and be none the worse would be to say that no might be yes and light sometimes darkness.

How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

It is possible to grow and not to grow, to grow less and to grow bigger, both at once—yes, even to grow by means of not growing!

How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near? Even with her altered complexion and her face of dislike; disenchanted of the belief that clung around her; known for a living, walking sepulchre, faithless, deluding, traitorous; I felt notwithstanding all this, that she was beautiful.

We have neither humility enough to be faithful, nor faith enough to be humble.

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

La double pensée est le pouvoir de garder à l'esprit simultanément deux croyances contradictoires, et de les accepter toutes deux.

It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones.

Did not the statement, You do not exist, contain a logical absurdity?

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

The rat had never come back, but the bugs had multiplied hideously in the heat. It did not seem to matter. Dirty or clean, the room was paradise.

It's a queer thing, I thought, to be known as 'Mr So-and-so, the well-known anti-Fascist'. A queer trade, anti-Fascism.

How could you have a slogan like freedom is slavery when the concept of freedom had been abolished

but I am so nauseated by Christian and Theosophical guff about the 'good and the true' that I prefer the appearance of evil to that of good.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Credo quia absurdum

The symmetries of immanence are cruel.

Tot ceea ce putem spune despre limb?, ca ÅŸi despre moarte este, într- un anumit sens, un adev?r inaccesibil.

I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.

La maladie nous révèle des fonctions normales au moment précis où elle nous en interdit l'exercice.

Todo se contradicía con eles, e en primeiro lugar a vida mesma. Eles querían gozar da vida, pero, por todas partes, ó seu redor, gozo confundíase coa propiedade.