Quotes About Paradox

of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.

Is love, yes, when a terrible feeling makes you happy?

The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you get- the more specifically you harvest- the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm. Your life and times don't drain of meaning because they become more contradictory, ornamented by paradox, inexplicable. The less explicable, the more meaning. The less like a mathematics equation (a sum game); the more like music (significant secret).

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.

For me, there is a real line between something being the worst thing in the world and the best thing in the world.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

I wrote a film for Tom Hanks and I wrote two films for Paul Greengrass that didn't actually happen. The paradox is that the bigger the film you write, the less likely it is to happen.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Too clever is dumb.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.

The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless.

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

So either closed timelike curves can't exist, or big macroscopic things can't travel on truly closed paths through spacetime—or everything we think we know about thermodynamics is wrong.

The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a simple motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is.