Quotes About Paradox

Berlagak tak mendengar apa-apa, Avenarius terus nyerocos. Di mata seorang ahli estetika, pantatnya pasti dinilai terlalu berisi dan agak rendah, dan itu makin jadi soal karena jiwanya merindukan ketinggian. Tapi justru dalam kontradiksinya ini aku mendapati inti keadaan manusia: kepala penuh mimpi, tetapi pantat yang menambatkan kita seperti sauh

Those who are fascinated by the idea of progress do not suspect that everything moving forward is at the same time bringing the end nearer and that joyous watchwords like forward and farther are the lascivious voice of death urging us to hasten to it.

Sólo una cosa es segura: la contradicción entre peso y levedad es la más misteriosa y equívoca de todas las contradicciones.

I love doing what I do, but I don't like seeing the finished product.

It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.

I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad.

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

I hate the feeling of falling - I'll never jump from a plane - but I love a good roller coaster. Go figure!

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.

Love is a funny thing, isn't it? The presence of it can bring you to save a foe, the absence of it can make you hurt your own flesh.

You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong.

The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering.

But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.

She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.

O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.

Love is not knowing what you're talking about.

This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.

The love of freedom is actually an aberration.

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.