Quotes About Paradox

It was funny, Grey thought. Not funny ha-ha but funny strange, the whole idea of time. He'd thought it was one thing but it was actually another.

Nebunia înseamn? uneori în?elepciune.

that even within its ugliness, there lay a surprising beauty, breathtaking because it was so unexpected.

Jolie laide = "pretty ugly" Draws you to it...bored into heart and mind.

You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.

Ah well." Gignomai turned slowly round. "It's not often commented on, but when you stop and think, mercy is the biggest injustice of them all.

If there's a hell, I truly believe, it's getting exactly what you've always wanted.

the exceptionally profound is always, by definition, basic and mundane.

As the physicist Richard Feynman once observed, "[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is— absurd.

Oppenheimer quite naturally found it comforting to be told by Bohr that the contradictions in life were nevertheless all of a piece—and therefore complementary.

Jack Simple. Though the name is ironic, because there is never anything simple about Jack.", Falling (Fade Book 2) by Kailin Gow

How can one be serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous!

The ancient sages never put their teachings in systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by talking like fools and ended up making their hearers wise.

If there is a "problem of evil", there is also a "problem of good.

In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.

In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.

Why everything that's supposed to be bad/Make me feel so good?

In my crazy world, above all others...you were the only one who was the ugliest. And you were the only one...who was the most beautiful.... This is the unspoken truth.

Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.

Ironic things are interesting.

It's so ironic that the better you get the easier it becomes to win.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

Life is full of ironies and absurdities.