Quotes About Paradox

The best evidence that time travel is impossible is the fact that we haven't been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.

It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.

How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.

Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a wind turns into a tracheotomy, a boat turns into a corpse.

It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.

So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?

I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time.

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.

who are you? really." Nykyrian shrugged. "Never figured it out. takes too much time to think about myself, and time is one luxury i don't own." pg.90

We have to be on time every day for one thing or another, so how can we be on time and yet not in time at the same time?

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that would be best made made by people who are junior.

Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

I have a quantum car. Every time I look at the speedometer I get lost.

Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.

God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is nothing but a mass of contradictions.

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.