Quotes About Paradox

Uno en las comunas sube hacia el cielo pero bajando hacia los infiernos.

Y donde está prohibido todo nada está. Todo es nada y nada es todo y todo pasa, señor, todo cambia, la ciudad, el país, el idioma.

La grandeza del hombre sólo se puede medir por su capacidad de desastre El éxito sabe a miel empalagosa: el fracaso a limón con sal.

The 'wrong thing' happened, we are now told, during the 'dark flush of night' (527.07). A flush usually brings colour to cheeks, so a dark flush is a mild oxymoron, like a dark light, and is all the more suggestive, since the dark flush of night is probably an erotically charged flush.

A clear Brunian 'coincidence of contraries' has surfaced again, for to be happy when miserable translates Bruno's paradoxical motto which preceded his play Candelaio: 'In tristitia hilaris: in hilaritate tristis'—in sad- ness, happiness and in happiness, sadness.

It is nearly an insoluble pancake, a conundrum of inscrutable potentialities, a snorter.

Is it about a bicycle?

You can call me a thief if you like, a thief of ceremonies

Imagine a state of affairs in which, for each man killed in action, two spring from the ground full of strength and energy. If there is a planet where such things happen, war, it must be admitted, is conducted there under conditions so different from those we see down here that it no longer deserves even to be called by the same name.

L'amour est une catastrophe magnifique: savoir que l'on fonce dans un mur et accélérer quand même; courir à sa perte, le sourire aux lèvres; attendre avec curiosité le moment où cela va foirer. L'amour est la seule déception programmée, le seul malheur prévisible dont on redemande.

Car l'amour ce n'est pas seulement: souffrir ou faire souffrir. Cela peut aussi être les deux.

L'amour est une catastrophe magnifique : savoir que l'on fonce dans un mur, et accéler quand même ; courir à sa perte, le sourire aux lèvres ; attendre avec curiosité le moment où cela va foirer. L'amour est la seule déception programmée, le seul malheur prévisible dont on redemande.

I love Germany so much that I am glad there are two of them.

One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

It is counterintuitive to inflict pain, tangible pain, as a way of relieving pain, but pain you can point to, pain that has a place, is pain that can be relieved.

We're always contradicting ourselves. We want people to tell us apart.... ...yet we don't want them to be able to. We want people to get to know us... ...but we also want them to keep their distance. We've always longed for someone to accept us... But we never believed there'd be anyone who would accept our twisted ways. That's why we'll stay locked up tight... ...in our own little private world... ...and throw away the key, so that no one can ever hurt us.

Bisogna affrettarsi a riderne per non dover piangere perché la vita è davvero troppo strana.

To deny, to believe, and to doubt absolutely -- this is for man what running is for a horse.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

There are truths on this side of the Pyrénées, which are falsehoods on the other.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.