Quotes About Paradox

Fate is a fickle bitch who dotes on irony." The Black Company pg 447

Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

A good deed never goes unpunished.

Ich liebe den Engel, so ein Teufel ich auch sein mag.

In order to produce it [an infinite series] we would need an infinitely long blackboard, an infinite supply of chalk, and an infinite length of time. We may be censured as too cruel for trying to crush so high a flight of the spirit by such a homely objection; but this is no answer.

how twisted we humans are, and yet they say a god made us; but I find it hard to conceive of any god wo is not as simple as a perfect equation, as clear as the air.

It was not merely that his brother was dead. His brain, too young to realize the full paradox, wondered with an obscure self- pity why it was that the pulse of his brother's fear went on and on, when Francis was now where he had always been told there was no more terror and no more--darkness.

How twisted we humans are, and yet they say a God made us; but I find it hard to conceive of any God who is not as simple as a perfect equation, as clear as air.

If I hate her so much as I sometimes do, how can I love her? Can one really hate and love? Or is it only myself that I really hate?

I find myself always torn between two beliefs: the belief that life should be better than it is and the belief that when it appears better it is really worse.

It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

Could life be so cruel yet so bounteous at the same time?

This world which we like to believe is sane and real is, in truth, absurd and fantastic.

What I could not understand was why the Didact had decided to save one of those very weapons whose creation he had so decisively opposed.

With Christianity, it seems, there is always the double-edged sword.

Only a fool resists the delight of contradiction by nature

Not all lawyers are annoying. Some are dead.

There's too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that's what heaven is---- a place where everybody's happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.

But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in is precisely because it isn't wise.

Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise.

God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.

Feynman once said that if you understand quantum theory, you don't. I had no idea what Lisa was talking about.

But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise.