Quotes About Paradox

It seems like the good guys turned out to be the bad guys, and the bad guys weren't all that bad.

The first man was not a man, Don Javier tells me, entangled in deep laughter. The first man was a woman...

The Zen philosopher, Basho, once wrote, 'A flute with no holes, is not a flute. A donut with no hole, is a Danish'.

I argue that his approach to batching helps explain this paradox. In particular, by consolidating his work into intense and uninterrupted pulses, he's leveraging the following law of productivity: High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus)

I am not busy. I am the laziest ambitious person I know.

the defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people

In a religion where logic alone rules, there is no power.

Hate sometimes stands quite close to love. God too stands often near to evil—like silent chessmen—side by side. Only the color of the squares is different.

Is there some rule that says a young man can't be a handsome prince and a terrible bore all at the same time?

Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.

That. . .is the paradox, the part that is perplexing. It seems, that if we take theses stories too literally, if we expect our personal lives to always end with a handsome prince, most of us will close our books with shattered dreams. Yet, on the other hand. . .if we don't take the meaning of these stories literally, if we treat theses tales as simple entertainment, we miss the deepest most life-changing aspects of the stories. We miss the entire reason they exist.

I'm not sure I agree with everything he says; but then I'm not sure I agree with everything I say.

Leibniz in this respect had perhaps even less caution than many of his contemporaries, for he seriously considered whether the infinite series 1 -1+1-1+... was equal to 1/2.

Where he makes a jest, a problem lies concealed.

Nothing that is good has come into the world without bringing a corresponding evil

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La naturaleza no sólo es armónica, sino terriblemente contradictoria y caótica

Lo bueno y lo malo están contenidos lógicamente en la naturaleza y en el fondo sólo son graduales diferencias a una misma cosa.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

There is no good that cannot produce evil and no evil that cannot produce good.

Dac? lumea ar fi fost perfect?, atunci nici eu nu a? fi existat

So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

You win some, you lose some. And sometimes you win and lose at the same time. Life's a bloody cockup.

A truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.