Quotes About Paradox

Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April.

It's a strange fucking world, and mostly the joke's on us.

Unlike those in other professions, artists cut the branch they are sitting on.

She was at her truest, it seemed to her, in these tingling moments—these moments when, paradoxically, she was also at her most anonymous.

E feci un'altra riverenza strizzando l'occhio. Due cose curiose da fare assieme , e non vi consiglierei di provare: poiché temo che la strizzatina d'occhio abbia sbilanciato la riverenza, e sono certa che la riverenza abbia sciupato la strizzatina.

Aquinas wondered what would happen if God wanted to achieve universal resurrection. In other words, bringing everybody who had ever lived back to life at the same time. What would happen to cannibals, and the people they ate? You couldn't bring them all back at the same time, because the cannibals are made of the people they have eaten. You could have one but not the other. Ha.' I looked at Rowan. 'That's a good example of a paradox.

Christopher, like most people, didn't like his universe being unfathomable, so I doubted that a Zen koan would help him.

My mind now has a celebration party and a funeral going on in the same room.

Without contradiction, there would be no life, no movement, no progress, a deadly slumber of all forces.

A final objection to relativism is the charge that its central premise, namely that moral absolutes do not exist, is a self-defeating statement, since the premise itself is an absolute.

Just as there is an advice paradox, there is a data paradox: no matter how much data you have, you still depend on your intuition for deciding how to interpret and then apply the data.

The fact Locke didn't die instantly may be taken as proof that a human male can survive having every last warm drop of blood within his body rush instantly to the vicinity of his cheeks.

I am utterly emboldened in my cowardice.

That beauty has a bitch streak as wide as ten rivers.

Q: What is the definition of innocence? A: A nun working in a condom factory, thinking she's making sleeping bags for mice.

Maybe some of both.

I was created to be destroyed.

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

That's the Irish People all over - they treat a serious thing as a joke and a joke as a serious thing.

We might be able to guarantee that events along a closed timelike curve are consistent with the microscopic laws of physics, but in general they cannot be compatible with an uninterrupted increase of entropy along the curve.

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever

There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.

People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.

The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it.