Quotes About Paradox

You and I, we have seen all of this before, the manner in which two opposing forces – no matter how disparate their origins, no matter how righteously one begins the conflict – end up becoming virtually identical to each other.

Purest light will blind as surely as absolute darkness.

Innocence was a blade of glory, yet it could blind on both sides.

We are contrary creatures, us humans, but that isn't something we need be afraid of, or even much troubled by. And if you make a list of those people who worship consistency, you'll find they're one and all tyrants or would-be tyrants. Ruling over thousands, or over a husband or a wife, or some cowering child.

As much as it grieves me to say, there are times when getting what one wants yields nothing but confusion. It turns out that what one wants is in fact not at all what one wants. Worse is when you simply don't know what you want. You'd think death would discard such trials. If only it did.

Ciekawo?? jest moim najwi?kszym przekle?stwem, ale ?wiadomo?? posiadania wady jeszcze jej nie usuwa.

Mathematically, circles embody change without change.

If real numbers are not real, why do mathematicians love them so much?

Actually, languages can be very tricky in this respect. The eminent linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin of Oxford once gave a lecture in which he asserted that there are many languages in which a double negative makes a positive but none in which a double positive makes a negative—to which the Columbia philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser, sitting in the audience, sarcastically replied, "Yeah, yeah.

By this Orwellian logic, happiness is suffering and suffering is happiness.

Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom : the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain.

In one of the paradoxes of storytelling, readers want to predict how the story will end (or how it will get to the end), but they want to be wrong.

Jesus being born as a baby was God's way of laughing at a world trying to grow up too quickly.

but by and large ITS proved that the best security was no security at all.

The human mind is both genius and pathetic, brilliant and idiotic.

What is most striking is not so much that Parmenides and Zeno were wrong as that they did not bother to explain why, if motion is impossible, things appear to move. Indeed, none of the early Greeks from Thales to Plato, in either Miletus or Abdera or Elea or Athens, ever took it on themselves to explain in detail how their theories about ultimate reality accounted for the appearances of things.

I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?