Quotes About Paradox

Practically speaking, if timesaving devices really saved time, there would be more time available to us now than ever before in history. But, strangely enough, we seem to have less time than even a few years ago.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe.

how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.

I think there's an interesting contradiction of having a young face and an old soul. There's something funny about it, and it also allows you to reinvent being old.

At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.

It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.

Honestly, I've been very blessed. Yes, I am cursed with this gift.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it!

According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.

Rien n'est plus troublant que les mouvements incessants de ce qui semble immobile. p214 (Minuit)

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

le langage de Sade est paradoxal parce qu'il est essentiellement celui d'une victime. Il n'y a que les victimes qui peuvent décrire les tortures, les bourreaux emploient nécessairement le langage hypocrite de l'ordre et du pouvoir établis

Il buon senso è che in ogni cosa vi è un senso determinabile; il paradosso è due sensi nello stesso tempo

She is an incredibly intelligent idiot

Tiene algo de perturbador, evocar un recuerdo cálido y que te deje completamente frío.

There's something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite. Dorothy

Los irónicos siempre se deshacen cuando se ven confrontados con la más absoluta sinceridad, es su kriptonita.

Why do we need time travel? All the answers come down to one. To elude death.