Quotes About Paradox

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.

The greatest man in history was the poorest

Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

A man may love a paradox without either losing his wit or his honesty.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Not everyone who owns it, Loves it; nor everyone who Loves it, Can own it!

Our saints have always been theives and murderers. That's the proof of the loftiness of their hearts. (spoken by Ulrich's neighbor)

It's so much easier to live in a world where everything is black and white. I've never done grey before, but I suspect it's one of those things that, tried once, you can never go back.

Paradoxically, it now is much easier to treat many mental disorders than it is to understand them.

Ras cardo speaks-tragedy and triumph usually go hand in hand like the flip sides of the same coin, and the truth that you dare not have one without the other- ras cardo reasonings.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

philosopher Kurt Gödel reached a similar conclusion in his 1931 "incompleteness theorem." We are thus left with the perplexing situation of being able to define a problem, to prove that a unique answer exists, and yet know that the answer can never be found.

En la piscina había dos niñas iguales con bañadores iguales, amarillos. Cuando una se tiraba al agua la otra salía fuera, de forma que siempre estaba la misma niña dentro y fuera del agua al mismo tiempo.

My strength is my weakness and weakness is my strength

Orgasm coincides with a general hardening of the arteries.

The world is not what it seems—but it isn't anything else, either.

The opposite of a plain truth, Neils Bohr liked to repeat, is a plain falsehood. But the opposite of a deep truth is another deep truth.

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

Aspen Ladd is quite the enigma. She looks and acts like a Girl Scout out of the cage, but in there she is an absolute beast.

What can be shown, cannot be said.