Quotes About Paradox

This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

Marcos Axiom — everything said is the opposite of the facts

The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.

fatigue, paradoxically, is almost always a result of living a life of too little action.

Snow sweeping downward, While the flowers reach upward-- Winter storm in spring.

What makes this case and others particularly paradoxical is the following statement,  by His Royal Highness King Bhumibol Adulyadej who himself said the following on his birthday speech of 2005: "Actually,  I must also be criticized.  I am not afraid if the criticism concerns what I do wrong, because then I know.  Because if you say the king CANNOT [my emphasis] BE CRITICIZED, it means that the king is not HUMAN [my emphasis]." 

Forgive me if I am repeating myself but time travelling will do that to a fellow.

Every father wants his son to have the advantages he himself was denied. But then, if you provide those advantages, you risk producing a weakling. The core parental paradox.

The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.

It's something of a parodox that film, the art that most resembles our daydreams, is the one most difficult to bring into existence.

The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

Yet I wonder if it doesn't make more sense to speak in terms of an American paradox—that is, a notably unhealthy people obsessed by the idea of eating healthily.

Well, boy, if he's an angel, he's sure a murderin' angel.

There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

a good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe, we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out...

The contradictions of judgments, then, neither offend nor alter, they only rouse and exercise me. We evade correction, whereas we ought to offer and present ourselves to it, especially when it appears in the form of conference, and not of authority.

There is nothing more unsociable than man, and nothing more sociable: unsociable by his vice, sociable by his nature.

is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.Nat. Hist., ii. 7.]

One may be humble out of pride.