Quotes About Paradox

Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

I'm a good Catholic girl in the way that Madonna is. In the sense that I'm not that good at all.

In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

I like everything that is wrong about Chicago.

Paradoxically, we have become so ethnocentric in our relativism that we feel it is only okay for others - not us - to think their religion is superior!

I'm completely lacking any sense of religious belief, but I am superstitious.

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

What good are insights? They only make things worse.

had my books been any worse I would not have been invited to Hollywood and if they had been any better I would not have come.

The total effect of Orwell's work is an effect of paradox. He was a humane man who communicated an extreme of inhuman terror; a man committed to decency who actualised a distinctive squalor.

Freedom for me is a pain in the Buridan's ass.

the success of relativistic quantum field theory offers no reason to believe that there is any such thing as a relativistic quantum field.

The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as an allegory about [the perpetual paradox that when one is closest to a destination one is also the farthest).