Quotes About Paradox

Exception. Dites qu'elle confirme la règle. Ne vous risquez pas à expliquer comment.

Vivre enfin, c'est mourir!

I have written less than most writers. But I have drunk far more than most drinkers.

Dans le monde réellement renversé, le vrai est un moment faux.

The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.

A heartbreaking paradox: if only I can finish my work so that it will live. Yet if it is finished, completed , a part of me but departed from me, I lost it alive, living but separate; and if it does not leave me, it is incomplete, insufficient, and half-dead that I keep it.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of a dilemma.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong.

Per ogni problema complesso vi è una soluzione semplice. Ed è sempre sbagliata

My favourite outdoor activity is going back inside.

Rara vez deja de haber ironía incluso en el mayor de los horrores.

sie hieß mich mit einer Warmherzigkeit willkommen, die geradezu hämisch war.

Transgression affirms the very rules it intends to flout. Nothing supports the norm like deviation.

what we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life

It is one of the most promising and dangerous paradoxes of the American Republic that it dared to realize equality on the basis of the most unequal population in the world, physically and historically. In the United States, social antisemitism may one day become the very dangerous nucleus for a political movement.

What seems paradoxical about everything that is justly called beautiful is the fact that it appears

You want to put people in neat categories, make them monsters or angels, but it almost never works that way. You work in the gray and frankly that kinda sucks. The extremes are so much easier.

What made me pause here was the pure dichotomy.

We want to make people consistent and predictable and simple, but they never are.

killing the allegorical two birds with one stone, which was a really violent and weird image when you stopped and thought about it. You throw a stone and kill two birds—and this is a good thing?

When they were alone, Linda Coldren began to pace the room. Myron was again awed by her looks—the paradoxical combination of beauty, strength, and now delicacy. The strong, toned arms, yet the long, slender neck. The harsh, pointed features, yet the soft indigo eyes. Myron had heard beauty described as "seamless"; hers was quite the opposite.

A totally healthy actor is a paradox.