Quotes About Paradox

Tam, kde není rozdíl? a protiklad?, nastane pohyb zpÄ›t.

Atata vreme cât cercul vicios nu se va rupe undeva, nu numai ceasul, dar ÅŸi timpul vor sta în loc oprite de firele de nisip.

When one is advised that something is black and white at the same time, it would be better to have no advice at all.

Life wouldn't be easier or not easier. Aren't both generalizations logically impossible? Since there's no correlation, there can be no comparison.

Ashoka's dilemma is the dilemma of civilization itself. As society developed and weaponry became more deadly, the empire, founded on and maintained by violence, would paradoxically become the most effective means of keeping the peace.

The French philosopher Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973) distinguished between a problem, "something met which bars my passage" and "is before me in its entirety," and a mystery, "something in which I find myself caught up, and whose essence is not before me in its entirety."69

Perhaps the central paradox of the religious life is that it seeks transcendence, a dimension of existence that goes beyond our mundane lives, but that human beings can only experience this transcendent reality in earthly, physical phenomena.

You see, Great Caesar. she said, this is the way in which mortals retain the power of the divine---in every earthly choice they make. 'But it's a paradox.' he said. 'Human beings are in control of everything and nothing at all.' 'Yes, she answered, her coy smile spreading joy across her lovely face. It is that simple.

Still,he noticed that though the house was in poor shape, the gardens were perfect. The paths were well lined, the flower beds filled with roses and lilacs, the trees well trimmed. He smiled darkly.His beautiful little angel of trouble must have run out of time.

She told him he was très cool and also, paradoxically, très hot. He was one quick ticket to ooh-lala land.

You are an enigma wrapped in a sticky bun.

Evil people can do good. Good people can do evil. Why does this happen sometimes? Because it's Tuesday.

For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction against Himself

All I know is that I am not a Marxist

What is certain is that I myself am not a Marxist

Knowledge is annoying

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness

That was the problem with time travel, of course (apart from the impossibility) - one would always be a Cassandra, spreading doom with one's foreknowledge of events.

One of the things Jackson liked about Julia was her independence, one of the things he didn't like about Julia was her independence.

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.