Quotes About Paradox

The medicine increases the disease.

The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world who, discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping straight

L'Italia pero' non e' un'inferno... Diciamo che e' un purgatorio insolito... Un posto capace di mandarci in bestia e in estasi nel raggio di cento metri e nel giro di dieci minuti.

Thus we come to the final paradox that while the best way to avoid atomic warfare is to get rid of war itself, the strongest present ally in the effort to get rid of war is the capacity to resort to atomic warfare at a moments notice.

A meshummed gives up one God for another. I don't want either. We live in a world where the clock ticks fast while he's on his timeless mountain staring in space. He doesn't see us and he doesn't care. Today I want my piece of bread, not in Paradise.

private vice can be publicly beneficial

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in Is termed violent by no one.

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

This is patently absurd but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

The human mind holds tightly to those things it can't reconcile.

The world is so strange that maybe it's perfectly logical.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Stupid. Love. Two different words for the same damned thing.

ABSURDITY, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Juxtaposition, you can't handle the juxtaposition!

I'm a sort of like post-modern vegetarian, I eat meat........Ironically.

Such a weird belief. Lots of Christians wear crosses around their necks. You think when Jesus comes back he's gonna want to see a fucking cross, man? "Ow." Might be why he hasn't shown up yet.

the Gen Y paradox: an entire generation of employees with the attitude that they know how to communicate with anybody, anytime, anywhere, and have the tools to back them up, but who need more help with critical thinking than prior generations in pulling meaning and value from all those communications.

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.